Arctic Archives : : Ice, Memory and Entropy / / ed. by Kjetil A. Jakobsen, Susi K. Frank.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2019 Part 2
• Funder: Thyssen
• MitwirkendeR: Bloom, Lisa E.,; Ebeling, Knut,; Ernst, Wolfgang,; Frank, Susi K.,; Hersko, Judit,; Hänsgen, Sabine,; Jakobsen, Kjetil A.,; Larsen, Janike K.,; Lund, Harald Østgaard,; Miyazaki, Asako,; Penskaya, Elena,; Ryall, Anka,; Schimanski, Johan,; Spieker, Sven,; Spring, Ulrike,; Toepfer, Georg,; Vedder, Ulrike,
• HerausgeberIn: Frank, Susi K.,; Jakobsen, Kjetil A.,
• Author: Thyssen
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 194
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive -- WHAT IS A ›NATURAL 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 -- PERFORMING ARCTIC ARCHIVES -- 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 -- ICE - MESSAGE(S) OF A MEMORY MEDIUM -- From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libuše 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