Polar Tourism: Tourism in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions, edited by Colin Michael Hall and Margaret E. Johnson.
Year: 1995
Type: book-review
Abstract: • REVIEWScohesive 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.
Source: ARCTIC
DOI: 10.14430/arctic1463
Author: John Splettstoesser
Institution: University of Toronto
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2009560099