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.
Funding
Australian Research Council
History
Publication title
The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature
Editors
A Hammond
Pagination
677-696
ISBN
9783030389727
Department/School
School of Humanities
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
London
Extent
35
Rights statement
Copyright 2020 The Author
Repository Status
Restricted
Socio-economic Objectives
Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture