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

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...

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Published in:	Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur
Main Author:	Fredrik Chr. Brøgger
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012-05-01
Subjects:	The North-American Arctic arctic environmentalism arctic exploration arctic literature Canadian literature Barry Lopez
Online Access:	https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/2299