Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient: An Account of an Aviator’s Emerging Environmental Consciousness

Rinni Haji Amran

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient: An Account of an Aviator’s Emerging Environmental Consciousness

Authors:

Rinni Haji Amran

Publisher:

'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal:

Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2024

Document Language:

English

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2001842939

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2509-1743

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 This article investigates the role of aviation in increasing environmental consciousness in the early twentieth century with particular focus on Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s flight account, North to the Orient (1935). It asks how Lindbergh’s aerial view of the changing natural landscape contributed to her awareness of environmental issues (along with her husband, she later became an environmental activist, speaking out for organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund) and man’s role in exacerbating – if not, creating – them. I also question why her environmentalist interpretation of the aerial view has been critically overlooked. Besides the current tendency to associate aeroplanes with pollution and overconsumption of natural energy sources, I illustrate how military, national, and commercial appropriation of the aeroplane obscured its environmental potential. More significantly, media coverage and critical studies have placed greater emphasis on Lindbergh’s position as a woman in a male-dominated profession, thereby obscuring the importance and potential of her unique perspective on the relationship between the aeroplane and nature. Lindbergh, I argue, did not just highlight and value nature in her text, but she also exhibited equal appreciation for the aeroplane (and technology in general) and its capacity to bring about awareness of environmental issues.

Article Details

Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient: An Account of an Aviator’s Emerging Environmental Consciousness

Authors:

Rinni Haji Amran

Publisher:

'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal:

Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001842939

pISSN:

2509-1743

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

North to the Orient

aviation

environmentalism

ecocriticism

history of technology

Issues

Article Details

Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient: An Account of an Aviator’s Emerging Environmental Consciousness

Authors: Rinni Haji Amran

Publisher: 'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal: Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2024

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001842939

pISSN: 2509-1743

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

North to the Orient

aviation

environmentalism

ecocriticism

history of technology

Issues

Authors:

Rinni Haji Amran

Publisher:

'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal:

Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001842939

pISSN:

2509-1743