Locating the Thing: The Antarctic as Alien Space in John W. Campbell's 'Who Goes There'
Critics interested in concepts of space and place in science fiction in recent years have often been drawn to what Scott Bukatman has termed the "alien terrain" of cyberspace. There are, however, equally alien spaces in the sf canon that have been largely ignored by the critics, relegated...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:17221 2023-05-15T14:00:15+02:00 Locating the Thing: The Antarctic as Alien Space in John W. Campbell's 'Who Goes There' Leane, E 2005 application/pdf https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17221/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17221/1/Locating_the_Thing.pdf http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241345 en eng https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17221/1/Locating_the_Thing.pdf Leane, E 2005 , 'Locating the Thing: The Antarctic as Alien Space in John W. Campbell's 'Who Goes There'' , Science Fiction Studies, vol. 32, no. 2 , pp. 225-239 . cc_utas Antarctica John W. Campbell Who Goes There Science fiction spatial turn spatiality alien space Yi-Fu Tuan abject Article PeerReviewed 2005 ftunivtasmania 2020-05-30T07:31:08Z Critics interested in concepts of space and place in science fiction in recent years have often been drawn to what Scott Bukatman has termed the "alien terrain" of cyberspace. There are, however, equally alien spaces in the sf canon that have been largely ignored by the critics, relegated to the status of "settings" because they are not explicitly foregrounded in the texts. This article concentrates on on classic sf story, showing how a reading focused on space and place can find new meanings in what might be considered a well-minded, if not exhausted, text. The text is John W. Campbell's 1938 story "Who Goes There?" and its "setting" is Antarctica. Drawing on earlier fictional and nonfictional narratives of the South Polar regions, cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's notion of "alien space," and Julia Kristeva's concept of the abject, I will argue that in "Who Goes There?" the disturbing spatial characteristics of Antarctica are displace onto the alien Thing found embedded in the ice. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Antarctic The Antarctic |
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Critics interested in concepts of space and place in science fiction in recent years have often been drawn to what Scott Bukatman has termed the "alien terrain" of cyberspace. There are, however, equally alien spaces in the sf canon that have been largely ignored by the critics, relegated to the status of "settings" because they are not explicitly foregrounded in the texts. This article concentrates on on classic sf story, showing how a reading focused on space and place can find new meanings in what might be considered a well-minded, if not exhausted, text. The text is John W. Campbell's 1938 story "Who Goes There?" and its "setting" is Antarctica. Drawing on earlier fictional and nonfictional narratives of the South Polar regions, cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's notion of "alien space," and Julia Kristeva's concept of the abject, I will argue that in "Who Goes There?" the disturbing spatial characteristics of Antarctica are displace onto the alien Thing found embedded in the ice. |
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https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17221/1/Locating_the_Thing.pdf Leane, E 2005 , 'Locating the Thing: The Antarctic as Alien Space in John W. Campbell's 'Who Goes There'' , Science Fiction Studies, vol. 32, no. 2 , pp. 225-239 . |
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