Greenland as seen by two contemporary British travellers: Joanna Kavenna and Gavin Francis
International audience Greenland has held a prominent place in the English imagination for a long time, its people and landscape sparking a variety of projections including the “Arctic Highlander” (Sir John Ross), “the Greenland bay of indifference” (Robert Burns), or the myth of “Ultima Thule”. Thi...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.qawj9s 2023-05-15T14:34:48+02:00 Greenland as seen by two contemporary British travellers: Joanna Kavenna and Gavin Francis Borm, Jan Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2016-10-21 https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2016.1220660 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01871972 en eng HAL CCSD hal-01871972 doi:10.1080/13645145.2016.1220660 10670/1.qawj9s https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01871972 undefined Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société ISSN: 1364-5145 Studies in Travel Writing Studies in Travel Writing, 2016, 20 (3), pp.262 - 271. ⟨10.1080/13645145.2016.1220660⟩ Greenland Arctic discourse travel writing colonialism reflexivity museo hist Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2016 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2016.1220660 2023-01-22T17:31:42Z International audience Greenland has held a prominent place in the English imagination for a long time, its people and landscape sparking a variety of projections including the “Arctic Highlander” (Sir John Ross), “the Greenland bay of indifference” (Robert Burns), or the myth of “Ultima Thule”. This article compares the chapters on Greenland in Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum (2006) and Gavin Francis’s True North: Travels in Arctic Europe (2008), two contemporary travelogues with a historical focus that also address current Arctic issues. The authors’ respective narrative strategies are critically assessed in relation to the diversity of viewpoints (external and internal), as well as the degree of reflexivity, they present. The article discusses what kinds of images their texts fashion, how they relate to the views of contemporary Greenlanders and in what ways the two authors contribute to the idea of a new Arctic narrative. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland greenlander* Thule Unknown Arctic Greenland Studies in Travel Writing 20 3 262 271 |
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International audience Greenland has held a prominent place in the English imagination for a long time, its people and landscape sparking a variety of projections including the “Arctic Highlander” (Sir John Ross), “the Greenland bay of indifference” (Robert Burns), or the myth of “Ultima Thule”. This article compares the chapters on Greenland in Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum (2006) and Gavin Francis’s True North: Travels in Arctic Europe (2008), two contemporary travelogues with a historical focus that also address current Arctic issues. The authors’ respective narrative strategies are critically assessed in relation to the diversity of viewpoints (external and internal), as well as the degree of reflexivity, they present. The article discusses what kinds of images their texts fashion, how they relate to the views of contemporary Greenlanders and in what ways the two authors contribute to the idea of a new Arctic narrative. |
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