Re-embodying North. A Feminist Analysis of Conceptual Metaphor in Women's Exploration Literature About the Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Johnstone, Tiffany
• Other Authors: Bellemare-Page, Stéphanie, Chartier, Daniel, Walecka-Garbalinska, Maria, Duhan, Alice
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Presses de l'Université du Québec et Université de Stockholm 2015
• Subjects: Nord; Nordicité; Imaginaire du Nord; Littérature; Canada; Arctique; Féminisme; Récit de voyage; Femmes; Métaphore; Empire; Genre; Ethnicité; North; Nordicity; Imagined North; Literature; Arctic; Feminism; Travel writing; Women; Metaphor; Gender; Race; États-Unis; United States; Elizabeth Taylor; Agnes Deans Cameron; Arctique*
• Online Access: http://archipel.uqam.ca/11655/1/222053164.pdf

In this article, the author develops cognitive linguistics conceptual metaphor theory and feminist theory to propose a way of analyzing women’s travel writing set in northern Canada. She argues that women’s travel literature set in northern Canada at the turn of the 20th century challenges mainstream North American literary discourses about northern Canada by engaging in specific metaphors that connect physical move- ment to cultural ideas relating to empire, gender, and race. She analyzes the way that such metaphors occur in the travel writing of American Elizabeth Taylor (1856-1932) and Canadian Agnes Deans Cameron (1863-1912).