Arctic Archives – Ice, Memory, and Entropy

Susi K. Frank (Prof. Dr.) leitet das Fachgebiet »Ostslawische Literaturen und Kulturen« an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

• Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive; On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives; Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory; The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives' Others; Landscapes as Archives of the Future?; Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers; A Fragment of Future History; The Absence of the Arctic; The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art; Excerpts from Anna Schwartz's Archive; Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive; An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene; From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libue Moníková's Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice); Myth of Preservation: Images of Ice, Snow and Glaciers as Metaphors for Memory in Post- Holocaust Literature and Art (Sebald, Celan, Bałka); Investigating the Labоratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s; Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene; Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory; Contributors.

»Boasting an impressive collection of literary scholars, theorists, and scientists from several disciplinary backgrounds, this thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume provides an excellent foundation for future work on an intriguing and worthwhile subject.«