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.
Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive Kein Zugriff Seiten 9 - 18
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On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives Kein Zugriff Seiten 21 - 36
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Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory Kein Zugriff Seiten 37 - 48
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The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives'' Others Kein Zugriff Seiten 49 - 68
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Landscapes as Archives of the Future? Kein Zugriff Seiten 69 - 92
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Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers Kein Zugriff Seiten 93 - 104
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A Fragment of Future History Kein Zugriff Seiten 107 - 130
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The Absence of the Arctic Kein Zugriff Seiten 131 - 142
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The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art Kein Zugriff Seiten 143 - 152
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Excerpts from Anna Schwartz''s Archive Kein Zugriff Seiten 153 - 176
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Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive Kein Zugriff Seiten 177 - 196
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An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene Kein Zugriff Seiten 197 - 218
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From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libuše Moníková''s Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice) Kein Zugriff Seiten 221 - 230
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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) Kein Zugriff Seiten 231 - 252
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Investigating the Labоratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s Kein Zugriff Seiten 253 - 268
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Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene Kein Zugriff Seiten 269 - 284
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Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory Kein Zugriff Seiten 285 - 310
