The Land that Time Forgot: Fictions of Antarctic Temporality
Antarctica's unique spatiality - its isolation, its position on the 'bottom' of the world, its seemingly limitless icescape - produces a complex and contradictory temporality. The preserving power of ice, along with the unfamiliar diurnal rhythms of high latitudes, gives the sense tha...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:17227 2023-05-15T14:00:15+02:00 The Land that Time Forgot: Fictions of Antarctic Temporality Leane, E Pordzik, R 2009 application/pdf https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17227/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17227/1/Land_Time_Forgot.pdf en eng Rodopi https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17227/1/Land_Time_Forgot.pdf Leane, E 2009 , 'The Land that Time Forgot: Fictions of Antarctic Temporality', in R Pordzik (ed.), Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses , Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 199-223. cc_utas Antarctica Dystopia Science fiction Allochronic Literary criticism chronotype cryonic fiction futurescape 'lost world' temporality Book Section PeerReviewed 2009 ftunivtasmania 2020-05-30T07:31:08Z Antarctica's unique spatiality - its isolation, its position on the 'bottom' of the world, its seemingly limitless icescape - produces a complex and contradictory temporality. The preserving power of ice, along with the unfamiliar diurnal rhythms of high latitudes, gives the sense that time progresses differently in the southernmost continent. Antarctica thus offers itself as an ideal location for speculative fiction dealing with strange temporal phenomena, including 'allochronic' fiction, in which ice acts as a form of time machine, allowing a living being to fast-forward into the future. With the advent of global warming, the Antarctic ice has taken on increased temporal significance: it layers of ice provide a record of past ages and hence a means of predicting the future, and its collapsing ice shelves ominously point towards catastrophes to come. Antarctica has become a literal futurescape, an idea that dystopian writers (and filmmakers) have seized upon. Focusing primarily on science fiction but also drawing on exploration narratives, this paper explores the way in which time and space are intertwined in textual representations of Antarctica. Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Shelves University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Antarctic The Antarctic |
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Antarctica's unique spatiality - its isolation, its position on the 'bottom' of the world, its seemingly limitless icescape - produces a complex and contradictory temporality. The preserving power of ice, along with the unfamiliar diurnal rhythms of high latitudes, gives the sense that time progresses differently in the southernmost continent. Antarctica thus offers itself as an ideal location for speculative fiction dealing with strange temporal phenomena, including 'allochronic' fiction, in which ice acts as a form of time machine, allowing a living being to fast-forward into the future. With the advent of global warming, the Antarctic ice has taken on increased temporal significance: it layers of ice provide a record of past ages and hence a means of predicting the future, and its collapsing ice shelves ominously point towards catastrophes to come. Antarctica has become a literal futurescape, an idea that dystopian writers (and filmmakers) have seized upon. Focusing primarily on science fiction but also drawing on exploration narratives, this paper explores the way in which time and space are intertwined in textual representations of Antarctica. |
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https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17227/1/Land_Time_Forgot.pdf Leane, E 2009 , 'The Land that Time Forgot: Fictions of Antarctic Temporality', in R Pordzik (ed.), Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses , Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 199-223. |
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