Arctic Archives – Ice, Memory, and Entropy
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Arctic Archives – Ice, Memory, and Entropy: (Culture & Theory)

Arctic Archives – Ice, Memory, and Entropy: (Culture & Theory)


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This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory – of Arctic exploring, ›conquering‹ and colonizing –, but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike. Examining the debate on the notion of (›natural‹) archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like ›warm‹, ›cold‹, ›freezing‹ and ›melting‹ as well as various works of literature, art and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists and archivologists.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive; On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives; Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory; The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives' Others; Landscapes as Archives of the Future?; Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers; A Fragment of Future History; The Absence of the Arctic; The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art; Excerpts from Anna Schwartz's Archive; Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive; An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene; From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libue Moníková's Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice); Myth of Preservation: Images of Ice, Snow and Glaciers as Metaphors for Memory in Post- Holocaust Literature and Art (Sebald, Celan, Bałka); Investigating the Labоratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s; Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene; Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory; Contributors.

About the Author :
Susi K. Frank (Prof. Dr.) leitet das Fachgebiet »Ostslawische Literaturen und Kulturen« an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Review :
»Boasting an impressive collection of literary scholars, theorists, and scientists from several disciplinary backgrounds, this thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume provides an excellent foundation for future work on an intriguing and worthwhile subject.« Besprochen in: Zitty, 23 (2019), Claudia Wahjudi »Boasting an impressive collection of literary scholars, theorists, and scientists from several disciplinary backgrounds, this thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume provides an excellent foundation for future work on an intriguing and worthwhile subject.«


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783837646566
  • Publisher: Transcript Verlag
  • Publisher Imprint: Transcript Verlag
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 350
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Culture & Theory
  • Weight: 666 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3837646564
  • Publisher Date: 08 Dec 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 147 mm


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