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Writing the North in the Twenty-First Century: Gavin Francis and Sara Wheeler Through Arctic Europe and Beyond
ISSN: 2603 - 4735
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Writing the North in the Twenty-First Century: Gavin Francis and Sara Wheeler Through Arctic Europe and Beyond
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Publisher: Vtu Review: Studies In The Humanities And Social Sciences ..
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Abstract
The article focuses on two books of travel writing, Gavin Francis’s True North. Travels in Arctic Europe (2008, 2010) and Sara Wheeler’s The Magnetic North. Notes from the Arctic Circle (2009, 2011), which represent journeys around the Arctic and self-consciously reflect upon received perceptions of the “old†continent’s polar regions and some northern territories beyond the physical-geographical confines of Europe. The narratives that the two authors present differ in significant ways: while Wheeler adopts a markedly gendered narratorial stance by representing herself, in her book’s opening chapter, as a parent travelling with her baby son, Francis assumes the stance of a “bookish wanderer,†following a precedent established by the noted writer, traveller, polyglot and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor. Both texts shed light on important aspects of the travel genre in the present. They problematize colonialist patterns of...
