Polar Tourism
Tourism in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions, edited by Colin Michael Hall and Margaret E. Johnson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16864362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Splettstoesser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ARCTIC (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0843 • E-ISSN: 1923-1245 |
| Publisher | The Arctic Institute of North America (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14430/arctic1463 |
| OpenAlex | W2009560099 |
| Language | EN |
cohesive alternative to heroic, masculine narratives.But the narrator does not relinquish traditional, romantic dreams of enduring.In a self-reflective gesture, he confesses that people who travel to the Arctic go there "to taunt mortality ... to drive the self like a stake through the heart of time; to be history" (p.106).He intimates that, by engaging in endurance sports and writing, he too can achieve this goal.In a deliciously playful and nostalgic conclusion, he envisions his own death (alluding, perhaps, to what Roland Barthes describes as the Death of the Author), and urges readers to look for him in the fictive arctic landscape of his imagination-a landscape which, as he so convincingly argues, exists both "out there" and on the page
Archaeology · Arctic · Environmental ethics · Geography · The arctic · Tourism · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Geology · Japanese History and Culture · Oceanography · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Highly cited | No |
|---|