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dc.contributor.authorKjeldaas, Sigfrid
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-04T12:04:05Z
dc.date.available2016-03-04T12:04:05Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractDepicting 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.en_US
dc.descriptionPublished version. Source at <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3436>http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3436</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNordlit 2015, 35:221-238en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1315533
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3436
dc.identifier.issn1503-2086
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/8692
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8271
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSeptentrio Academic Publishingen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectGreenlanden_US
dc.subjectArctic landscapeen_US
dc.subjectgeographyen_US
dc.subjectvisionen_US
dc.subjectthe subjecten_US
dc.subjectembodied affinitiesen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Allmenn litteraturvitenskap: 041en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::General literary science: 041en_US
dc.titleLandscape and Vision in Gretel Ehrlich's This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenlanden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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