"This Dream of arctic rest" : Memory, Metaphor and Mental Illnessin Jenny Diski’s Skating to Antarctica

• Main Author: Gray, William
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Luleå tekniska universitet, Pedagogik, språk och Ämnesdidaktik 2009
• Subjects: Antarctic; metaphor; cold; depression; skating; white-ness; Didactics; Didaktik; Arctic; Jenny; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-20911

Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica, an autobiographical text published in 1997, engages with Antarctica not only as a literal place, but also as a location of the mind. Her imaginative response to what has traditionally been perceived as an inhuman landscape allows her to view the Polar region...