IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Estrangement in Antarctica. The experience of the strange in the travel diaries of whalers and scientist (20th Century)
Autor/es:
NUVIALA ANTELO, MARÍA VICTORIA
Lugar:
Hobart
Reunión:
Conferencia; Depths and Surfaces: Understanding the Antarctic Region through the Humanities and Social Sciences; 2017
Institución organizadora:
Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
Resumen:
During the 20 th century, the experience of estrangement became an object of study ofdisciplines such as: philosophy, anthropology and ethnology, also a theoretical approachin Daily Life Studies, and an artistic strategy of the avant-garde?s. Antarctica, thoughvery promising for studying the figure of the strange and the experience ofestrangement, have been rarely approached from this perspective.The aim of this lecture is to explore how the experience of estrangement appears ondifferent travelers, sometimes as a result of an extraordinary event and many others asan outcome of the daily life routine. Furthermore, we will explore how the figure of thestrange materializes along these journeys in the form of landscapes, animals, humanbeings, weather phenomenon or even familiar objects.To that end, we will analyze the Travel Diaries of three explorers on their trips toAntarctica during the first decades of the 20 th Century. The first one, is an unpublisheddiary written by a Norwegian whaler who worked at the land station in Deception Islandduring the season of 1915/1916, the second one belonged to a young British scientist,Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe who participated of the British Expedition to Graham Land -1920/1922-, and the third one corresponds to Jean Baptiste Charcot on his second trip toAntarctica on board of the Pourquoi Pas? between 1908 and 1910.