The Paradoxical Discourse of Language and Silence in Some Contemporary North-American Texts on the Arctic
The Arctic has often been regarded (its various indigenous groups notwithstanding) as a desolate and silent void to be explored and defined by Euro-westerners, usuallyin terms of a masculine competitive ethos and an ethnocentric rhetoric of WesternEnlightenment and progress. Surprisingly, even many...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English Norwegian |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2012
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7557/13.2299 https://doaj.org/article/fb941eef71204ce1a2e2ef4e34c1506b |