The Paradoxical Discourse of Language and Silence in Some Contemporary North-American Texts on the Arctic

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Brøgger, Fredrik Chr.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012
• Subjects: The North-American Arctic; arctic environmentalism; arctic exploration; arctic literature; Canadian literature; Barry Lopez; Aritha van Herk; John Moss; Arctic; Lopez
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/2299; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.2299

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...