Permafrost Is an Archive : And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands (In Place)

Cook, Corinna

West Virginia University Press（2026/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781959000709

Full Description

The Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs—a legacy of government regulation over Indigenous life. Corinna Cook, who was born white on Áak'w Kwáan Tlingit land in Juneau, Alaska, wrestles with the past and future into Canada's Yukon Territory. With writing that blends research and reverie, her essays ask how we might come into right relations with our most difficult, shared histories. How can we carry the past together, in a good way, as the land melts? The answers—elusive as they are—carry global resonance, taking shape through a deeply personal lens combined with careful study of local arts, artifacts, maps, and the land we depend on.

Contents

The Photographer (a prelude)
One: Distance Over Light or The Slower Questions
The Black Spruce
Distance over Light
Sister Essays: The Young and the Old
The Young
The Old
Swan Signs

Two: Government Documents: A Lineage of Blades or The Story of the Day
Atlin
Permafrost Is an Archive
YFN 101: What We Give to One Another
Chooutla: Truth and Reconciliation
Government Documents: A Lineage of Blades

Three: The Kohklux Map or The Trails are Always There
Under the Bridge at Johnson's Crossing
The Kohklux Map
The Ash and the Literature
A Triangle of Sun
Salsa
The End

Acknowledgments