Northern Genealogies in ‘The Snow Queen’ and Frozen
H. C. Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’ (1844) and its self-professed adaptation Frozen (2013) both maintain a combined focus on origins and development. I approach the two texts as narratives that explain aspects of human life by showing how they came into being – as accounts that, although not primarily...
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| description | H. C. Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’ (1844) and its self-professed adaptation Frozen (2013) both maintain a combined focus on origins and development. I approach the two texts as narratives that explain aspects of human life by showing how they came into being – as accounts that, although not primarily historical, are still bound up with genealogical ways of thinking: how, and from what beginnings, do humans and their communities evolve? What happens in the transition from non-existence to being? In both texts, the northern setting is a requisite part of these narratives of development – in the dual sense of growth and emergence. In this article, I describe the interaction between the texts’ genealogical discourses and their northern settings. I also discuss how the two texts reflect and rephrase current and past discourses where northerness is associated with genealogical issues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e23e7c1eb80e4a5c8bc1b5ebd46bf7162024-02-02T07:47:32ZengSeptentrio Academic PublishingNordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur0809-16681503-20862020-12-014610.7557/13.5478Northern Genealogies in ‘The Snow Queen’ and FrozenMorten Bartnæs0UiT The Arctic University of NorwayH. C. Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’ (1844) and its self-professed adaptation Frozen (2013) both maintain a combined focus on origins and development. I approach the two texts as narratives that explain aspects of human life by showing how they came into being – as accounts that, although not primarily historical, are still bound up with genealogical ways of thinking: how, and from what beginnings, do humans and their communities evolve? What happens in the transition from non-existence to being? In both texts, the northern setting is a requisite part of these narratives of development – in the dual sense of growth and emergence. In this article, I describe the interaction between the texts’ genealogical discourses and their northern settings. I also discuss how the two texts reflect and rephrase current and past discourses where northerness is associated with genealogical issues.https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5478The Snow QueenSneedronningenH. C. AndersenFrozenGenealogyNortherness |
| spellingShingle | Morten Bartnæs Northern Genealogies in ‘The Snow Queen’ and Frozen Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur The Snow Queen Sneedronningen H. C. Andersen Frozen Genealogy Northerness |
| title | Northern Genealogies in ‘The Snow Queen’ and Frozen |
| title_full | Northern Genealogies in ‘The Snow Queen’ and Frozen |
| title_fullStr | Northern Genealogies in ‘The Snow Queen’ and Frozen |
| title_full_unstemmed | Northern Genealogies in ‘The Snow Queen’ and Frozen |
| title_short | Northern Genealogies in ‘The Snow Queen’ and Frozen |
| title_sort | northern genealogies in the snow queen and frozen |
| topic | The Snow Queen Sneedronningen H. C. Andersen Frozen Genealogy Northerness |
| url | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5478 |
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