The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives’ Others

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive 9
5. WHAT IS A ›NATURAL ARCHIVE‹?
6. On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives 21
7. Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory 37
8. The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives’ Others 49
9. Landscapes as Archives of the Future? 69
10. Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers 93
11. PERFORMING ARCTIC ARCHIVES
12. A Fragment of Future History 107
13. The Absence of the Arctic 131
14. The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art 143
15. Excerpts from Anna Schwartz’s Archive 153
16. Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive 177
17. An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene 197
18. ICE – MESSAGE(S) OF A MEMORY MEDIUM
19. From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libuše Moníková’s Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice) 221
20. Myth of Preservation: Images of Ice, Snow and Glaciers as Metaphors for Memory in Post- Holocaust Literature and Art (Sebald, Celan, Bałka) 231
21. Investigating the Labоratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s 253
22. Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene 269
23. Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory 285
24. Contributors 311