Collecting the Andrée expedition

Circulating Arctic objects in writing

Forfattere

  • Janicke S. Kaasa University of Oslo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.11598

Sammendrag

The article investigates the circulation of objects from the Salomon A. Andrée expedition (1897), examining the reproduction and recontextualization of written records in four Swedish works: Med Örnen mot polen (1930), Per Olof Sundman’s documentary novel Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd (1967), and his compilation Ingen fruktan, inget hopp (1968), and Bea Uusma’s Expeditionen (2013). The article approaches these writings through the prism of collecting, exhibiting, and curating, as part of the extended archive of the Andrée expedition, and argues for an understanding of books as important in circulating objects to a reading audience in ways that shape the expedition’s afterlife.

Forfatterbiografi

Janicke S. Kaasa, University of Oslo

Associate Professor of Nordic Literature
Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies

Nedlastinger

Publisert

2024-07-08