The Coldest War: Imagining Geopolitics from the Bottom of the Earth
Puns are difficult to avoid when the polar regions and the Cold War are brought together. Metaphors of icy exchanges and thawing relations spring easily to mind, pointing up the potential for symbolic uses of the Earths icescapes in literary texts of the period. Of course, the Arctic and Antarctic a...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:135453 2023-05-15T13:59:46+02:00 The Coldest War: Imagining Geopolitics from the Bottom of the Earth Leane, E 2020 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38973-4_34 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/135453 en eng Palgrave Macmillan http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38973-4_34 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT120100402 Leane, E, The Coldest War: Imagining Geopolitics from the Bottom of the Earth, The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, A Hammond (ed), London, pp. 677-696. ISBN 9783030389727 (2020) [Research Book Chapter] 9783030389727 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/135453 Language Communication and Culture Literary studies Literary studies not elsewhere classified Research Book Chapter NonPeerReviewed 2020 ftunivtasecite https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38973-4_34 2021-05-03T22:17:04Z Puns are difficult to avoid when the polar regions and the Cold War are brought together. Metaphors of icy exchanges and thawing relations spring easily to mind, pointing up the potential for symbolic uses of the Earths icescapes in literary texts of the period. Of course, the Arctic and Antarctic are not only symbols [] but also material places with their own specific histories and geopolitics. However, while the strategic importance to the Cold War of the Arctic, positioned between the US and the USSR and occupied by early missile warning systems, is readily acknowledged, the relevance of the remote Antarctic is less immediately clear. Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Arctic eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Arctic Antarctic 677 696 Cham |
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Puns are difficult to avoid when the polar regions and the Cold War are brought together. Metaphors of icy exchanges and thawing relations spring easily to mind, pointing up the potential for symbolic uses of the Earths icescapes in literary texts of the period. Of course, the Arctic and Antarctic are not only symbols [] but also material places with their own specific histories and geopolitics. However, while the strategic importance to the Cold War of the Arctic, positioned between the US and the USSR and occupied by early missile warning systems, is readily acknowledged, the relevance of the remote Antarctic is less immediately clear. |
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