Northern Genealogies in ‘The Snow Queen’ and Frozen
| Autor: | Morten Bartnæs |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Nordlit; No 46 (2020): Conceptualizing the North; 285–302 Nordlit; Nr 46 (2020): Conceptualizing the North; 285–302 Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, Iss 46 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1503-2086 0809-1668 |
| DOI: | 10.7557/13.5478 |
| Popis: | H. C. Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’ (1844) and its self-professed adaptation Frozen (2013) both maintain a combined focus on origins and development. I approach the two texts as narratives that explain aspects of human life by showing how they came into being – as accounts that, although not primarily historical, are still bound up with genealogical ways of thinking: how, and from what beginnings, do humans and their communities evolve? What happens in the transition from non-existence to being? In both texts, the northern setting is a requisite part of these narratives of development – in the dual sense of growth and emergence. In this article, I describe the interaction between the texts’ genealogical discourses and their northern settings. I also discuss how the two texts reflect and rephrase current and past discourses where northerness is associated with genealogical issues. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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