Masculinity and the Polar Gothic: On Ally Wilkes’s “All the White Spaces”
ALLY WILKES’S ANTARCTICA circa 1920 is a panoply of polar terrors. The sirenic “call of the South” portends nightmarish killer whales with grinding teeth; frigid “Hell” and fiery shipwreck; an aurora australis that crackles and encroaches, lassoing men and dragging them to snowy deaths; a putrefying body sawed slowly apart, the stuff of Service’s “Blasphemous […]
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