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

• Autore: Currie Noel Elizabeth
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca [NY], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 971.1/2; 305.8/001
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Nootka Sound Region (B.C.) Discovery and exploration British
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Constructing colonial discourse
• ISBN: 1-282-86361-4; 9786612863615; 0-7735-7297-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782185503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; ; 48.