Constructing Colonial Discourse
Captain Cook at Nootka Sound
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
232 pages
978-0-7735-7297-3 (ISBN)
Description
Constructing Colonial Discourse combines close textual analysis with the insights of postcolonial theory to critique the discursive and rhetorical strategies by which the official account of the third voyage transformed Cook into an imperial hero.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
United States
File size
12,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-7297-3 (9780773572973)
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08/2005
McGill-Queen's University Press
€148.56
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Langara College.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Life in the Contact Zone
- 1 Travel and Exploration Literature: Constructing the New World
- 2 Approaching Sublimity: Aesthetics, Exploration, and the Northwest Coast
- 3 Science and Ethnography: The Field of Vision
- 4 Cook and the Cannibals: The Limits of Understanding
- 5 Reconstructing Cook
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
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