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This paper is about our parents and our predecessors in life and in literature. It specifically interrogates the choice of Polar landscapes for the playing out of narratives of gender difference in stories of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. I have chosen to pay attention to three narratives: Shackleton's South, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ursula K Le Guin's short story Sur. They all take place in the icy expanse of the Arctic and Antarctic. I read them in the light of the question of origins: ‘where do I come from?'
Author(s): Gould PE
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Nordlit: Arctic Discourses
Year: 2008
Volume: 23 (2008)
Print publication date: 19/07/2008
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, University of Tromso
Place Published: Norway
URL: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1189
DOI: 10.7557/13.1189
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9788290423792