Landscape and Vision in Gretel Ehrlich's This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3436 . Depicting the narrator’s repeated travels to the northwestern coast of Greenland, Gretel Ehrlich’s This Cold Heaven aims to portray the landscapes of Greenland in a way that frees them from the constraints of the visual ideology associ...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/8692 2023-05-15T15:10:03+02:00 Landscape and Vision in Gretel Ehrlich's This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland Kjeldaas, Sigfrid 2015 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8692 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3436 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing Nordlit 2015, 35:221-238 FRIDAID 1315533 http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3436 1503-2086 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8692 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8271 openAccess Greenland Arctic landscape geography vision the subject embodied affinities VDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Allmenn litteraturvitenskap: 041 VDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::General literary science: 041 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2015 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3436 2021-06-25T17:54:39Z Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3436 . Depicting the narrator’s repeated travels to the northwestern coast of Greenland, Gretel Ehrlich’s This Cold Heaven aims to portray the landscapes of Greenland in a way that frees them from the constraints of the visual ideology associated with Western culture’s idea of landscape. This, however, is no easy task in a natural environment dominated by wide and grand views that seem to invite the detached observer’s ordering vision. This article shows how Ehrlich’s text uses Inuit narratives and ontologies that share perspectives with feminist theories on space and subjectivity in order to challenge our Western modern culture’s conceptions of vision and landscape. The narrator’s experiences of dogsled travel in landscapes determined by weather, ice and light conditions create novel sensations that display and disrupt the boundaries of the physical environment as well as of Western conception of the subject. In this manner Ehrlich’s travel narrative gradually develops away from a rationalist and objectifying form of geography towards a different and more embodied perception of landscape that acknowledges the relational and dynamic nature of Greenland’s icescapes. This rewriting of landscape implies an understanding of vision as an integral part of a bodily whole, in constant interaction – or even co-constitution – with the environment. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland inuit University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Greenland Nordlit 35 221 |
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Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3436 . Depicting the narrator’s repeated travels to the northwestern coast of Greenland, Gretel Ehrlich’s This Cold Heaven aims to portray the landscapes of Greenland in a way that frees them from the constraints of the visual ideology associated with Western culture’s idea of landscape. This, however, is no easy task in a natural environment dominated by wide and grand views that seem to invite the detached observer’s ordering vision. This article shows how Ehrlich’s text uses Inuit narratives and ontologies that share perspectives with feminist theories on space and subjectivity in order to challenge our Western modern culture’s conceptions of vision and landscape. The narrator’s experiences of dogsled travel in landscapes determined by weather, ice and light conditions create novel sensations that display and disrupt the boundaries of the physical environment as well as of Western conception of the subject. In this manner Ehrlich’s travel narrative gradually develops away from a rationalist and objectifying form of geography towards a different and more embodied perception of landscape that acknowledges the relational and dynamic nature of Greenland’s icescapes. This rewriting of landscape implies an understanding of vision as an integral part of a bodily whole, in constant interaction – or even co-constitution – with the environment. |
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