The Unreliability of Place Construction in Contemporary Alaskan Regional Writing // La falta de fiabilidad en la construcción del lugar en la narrativa regional contemporánea de Alaska

• Published in: Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
• Main Author: Feuer-Cotter, Julia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Alcalá 2014
• Subjects: Alaska; space and place; geographical imagination // Alaska; teoría del espacio y lugar; imaginación geográfica; Arctic; Larga; Nickerson; Sheila; Velma
• Online Access: https://ecozona.eu/article/view/613

Alaska’s geographic isolation results in the fact that most people experience the Far North only second-hand, commonly from the narratives of visitors. Those representations, overshadowed by myth, define Alaska as a region and reflect on the literary imagination of the 49th state. This paper analyse...