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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782185503321

Autore

Currie Noel Elizabeth

Titolo

Constructing colonial discourse [[electronic resource] ] : Captain Cook at Nootka Sound / / Noel Elizabeth Currie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca [NY], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-86361-4

9786612863615

0-7735-7297-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; ; 48

Disciplina

971.1/2

305.8/001

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, English - British Columbia - Nootka Sound Region - History and criticism

Nuu-chah-nulth Indians - British Columbia - Nootka Sound Region - Social life and customs

Discourse analysis

Ethnology - Philosophy

Ethnocentrism - Europe

Nootka Sound Region (B.C.) Discovery and exploration British

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Life in the Contact Zone -- Travel and Exploration Literature: Constructing the New World -- Approaching Sublimity: Aesthetics, Exploration, and the Northwest Coast -- Science and Ethnography: The Field of Vision -- Cook and the Cannibals: The Limits of Understanding -- Reconstructing Cook -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.