Arctic Archives
Ice, Memory and Entropy
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive
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WHAT IS A ›NATURAL ARCHIVE‹?
On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives
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Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory
Seiten 37 - 48 -
The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives' Others
Seiten 49 - 68 -
Landscapes as Archives of the Future?
Seiten 69 - 92 -
Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers
Seiten 93 - 104 -
PERFORMING ARCTIC ARCHIVES
A Fragment of Future History
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The Absence of the Arctic
Seiten 131 - 142 -
The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art
Seiten 143 - 152 -
Excerpts from Anna Schwartz's Archive
Seiten 153 - 176 -
Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive
Seiten 177 - 196 -
An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene
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ICE – MESSAGE(S) OF A MEMORY MEDIUM
From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libuše Moníková's Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice)
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Myth of Preservation: Images of Ice, Snow and Glaciers as Metaphors for Memory in Post- Holocaust Literature and Art (Sebald, Celan, Bałka)
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Investigating the Labоratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s
Seiten 253 - 268 -
Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene
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Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory
Seiten 285 - 310 -
Contributors
Seiten 311 - 318
24 October 2019, 318 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4656-6
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