The unreliability of place construction in contemporary Alaskan regional writing

• Main Author: Feuer-Cotter, Julia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Alcalá 2014
• Subjects: Alaska; Place and space theory; Geographical imagination; Teoría del espacio y lugar; Imaginación geográfica; Literatura; Medio ambiente; Literature; Environmental science; Arctic; Sheila; Larga; Nickerson; Velma
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20863

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...