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The Coldest War: Imagining Geopolitics from the Bottom of the Earth
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Leane, E, The Coldest War: Imagining Geopolitics from the Bottom of the Earth, The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, A Hammond (ed), London, pp. 677-696. ISBN 9783030389727 (2020) [Research Book Chapter]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38973-4_34
Abstract
Puns are difficult to avoid when the polar regions and the Cold War are brought together. Metaphors of icy exchanges and thawing relations spring easily to mind, pointing up the potential for symbolic uses of the Earth’s icescapes in literary texts of the period. Of course, the Arctic and Antarctic are not only symbols […] but also material places with their own specific histories and geopolitics. However, while the strategic importance to the Cold War of the Arctic, positioned between the US and the USSR and occupied by early missile warning systems, is readily acknowledged, the relevance of the remote Antarctic is less immediately clear.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | Cold War literature, Antarctica, geopolitics, polar regions |
| Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
| Research Group: | Literary studies |
| Research Field: | Literary studies not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture |
| UTAS Author: | Leane, E (Professor Elizabeth Leane) |
| ID Code: | 135453 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (FT120100402) |
| Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
| Deposited On: | 2019-10-22 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-04-28 |
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