The hum of the earth: natural history as ecological narrative in Elizabeth Hay’sLate Nights on Airand Jennifer Kingsley’sPaddlenorth
| Autor: | Sarah Wylie Krotz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Studies in Travel Writing. 20:249-261 |
| ISSN: | 1755-7550 1364-5145 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13645145.2016.1215059 |
| Popis: | This paper considers natural history as a narrative intervention – disruptive, creative and ecological – in Elizabeth Hay’s bestselling 2007 novel Late Nights on Air and Jennifer Kingsley’s Paddlenorth: Adventure, Resilience, and Renewal in the Arctic Wild (2014). These books tell stories of ambitious canoe trips through parts of the Canadian Arctic. They also showcase the vital relationship between travel writing, plotted along the linear trajectory of the canoe route, and natural history, the significance of which might easily be overlooked. The conflict between the propulsion of the canoe route and the pauses of the naturalist dramatises a narrative tension between the human-centred story and the wider environment that both authors seek to overcome. Drawing from Tim Ingold and Timothy Morton, I argue that natural history makes it possible to write about the wilderness, not as a “backdrop”, but as a dynamic set of intersecting stories conducive to ecological thinking. |
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