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Constructing colonial discourse : Captain Cook at Nootka Sound / Noel Elizabeth Currie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currie, Noel Elizabeth.
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 48.
- McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 48
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings, English--British Columbia--Nootka Sound Region--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, English.
- Nuu-chah-nulth Indians--British Columbia--Nootka Sound Region--Social life and customs.
- Nuu-chah-nulth Indians.
- Discourse analysis.
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnocentrism--Europe.
- Ethnocentrism.
- Nootka Sound Region (B.C.)--Discovery and exploration--British.
- Nootka Sound Region (B.C.).
- Cook, James, 1728-1779.
- Cook, James.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca [NY] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86361-4
- 9786612863615
- 0-7735-7297-X
- OCLC:
- 191819026
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