Introduction: new worlds and old lands - the travel book and the construction of American identity

Hamera, Judith; Bendixen, Alfred

doi:10.1017/ccol9780521861090.001

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“…6 Motivated by various and often competing interests, such writings "exist betwixt and between the factual report and the fictional account, personal memoir and ethnography, science and romance." 7 Travel writings has a singular place in the history of the Arctic. Long "imagined yet, unseen," the notion of the frozen, alien, and isolated North was carried to European and North American populations through such explorer and traveler accounts, with the possibility for wealth, fame, and prestige they promised drawing successive waves of expeditions to the region well into the nineteenth century.…”

Section: Travel Writing and The Sensational Arcticmentioning

confidence: 99%

To “Lure On the Gentle Reader”

Vanek¹,

Rygaard²

2023

Sibirica

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While historical depictions of gender and sexuality propagated by outsiders continue to resonate through contemporary representations of Arctic peoples, researchers have only now begun to unpack these persistent ideas and their role in shaping current struggles for access, inclusion, and equality. This article aims to contribute to this growing discussion by examining the depictions of Greenlandic women and sexuality in Rockwell Kent's Salamina (1935). Drawing on a sensationalism that has long been a fixture of Arctic accounts and later media, Kent described Greenlandic women as childlike and highly sexual but still knowable, reinforcing existing hierarchies of power built on constructions of gender and race. This article interrogates the artist's depiction of Greenlandic women and its relation to broader representation of Indigenous peoples in the Arctic.

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Section: Travel Writing and The Sensational Arcticmentioning

confidence: 99%