Heroic and Post-colonial Antarctic narratives
In 2012 the anniversary of Robert Falcon Scott’s arrival at the South Pole and of his death in the ice on his return journey has prompted new research on Scott and the Antarctic continent. The renaissance of Antarctic interests shows that Antarctica continues to be a source of fascination for the We...
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ftunivmilanoair:oai:air.unimi.it:2434/480180 2024-02-11T09:57:28+01:00 Heroic and Post-colonial Antarctic narratives N. Brazzelli K. Dodd A. Hemming P. Roberts N. Brazzelli 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2434/480180 eng eng Edward Elgar info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9781784717674 ispartofbook:Handbook on the politics of Antarctica firstpage:69 lastpage:83 numberofpages:15 alleditors:K. Dodds, A. Hemmings, P. Roberts http://hdl.handle.net/2434/480180 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85075846898 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Settore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart 2017 ftunivmilanoair 2024-01-23T23:32:19Z In 2012 the anniversary of Robert Falcon Scott’s arrival at the South Pole and of his death in the ice on his return journey has prompted new research on Scott and the Antarctic continent. The renaissance of Antarctic interests shows that Antarctica continues to be a source of fascination for the Western world as a place for the expression of individual bravery and endurance. However, the role of Antarctica as an imperial space in the British cultural imagination is now superseded by its status of postcolonial territory ‘owned’ both by the former imperial nations and by postcolonial countries such as India or New Zealand. Many other countries are directly involved in the project of making the ‘white continent’ a natural reserve entirely devoted to science. The contemporary process of creating Antarctica through writing is strongly linked to memorialization of the past including the ‘built’ environments of the continent, that is the scientific bases, the bodies of the people moving across or temporarily living on ice. A broad range of contemporary representations, discourses and practices that revive the Heroic Era rewrite, critique, constitute and imagine the cultural history and landscape of Antarctica, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the area’s fragile geopolitics. Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica South pole South pole The University of Milan: Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (AIR) Antarctic The Antarctic New Zealand South Pole |
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In 2012 the anniversary of Robert Falcon Scott’s arrival at the South Pole and of his death in the ice on his return journey has prompted new research on Scott and the Antarctic continent. The renaissance of Antarctic interests shows that Antarctica continues to be a source of fascination for the Western world as a place for the expression of individual bravery and endurance. However, the role of Antarctica as an imperial space in the British cultural imagination is now superseded by its status of postcolonial territory ‘owned’ both by the former imperial nations and by postcolonial countries such as India or New Zealand. Many other countries are directly involved in the project of making the ‘white continent’ a natural reserve entirely devoted to science. The contemporary process of creating Antarctica through writing is strongly linked to memorialization of the past including the ‘built’ environments of the continent, that is the scientific bases, the bodies of the people moving across or temporarily living on ice. A broad range of contemporary representations, discourses and practices that revive the Heroic Era rewrite, critique, constitute and imagine the cultural history and landscape of Antarctica, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the area’s fragile geopolitics. |
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Heroic and Post-colonial Antarctic narratives |
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