"The Paradoxical Discourse of Language and Silence in Some Contemporary North-American Texts on the Arctic"

• Main Author: Brøgger, Fredrik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Tromsø 2012
• Subjects: VDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::General literary science: 041; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Allmenn litteraturvitenskap: 041; VDP::Humanities: 000::Cultural science: 060; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Kulturvitenskap: 060; Arctic; Lopez
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4882

The Arctic has often been regarded (its various indigenous groups notwithstanding) as a desolate and silent void to be explored and defined by Euro-westerners, usuallyin terms of a masculine competitive ethos and an ethnocentric rhetoric of WesternEnlightenment and progress. Surprisingly, even many...