Title Constructing colonial discourse : Captain Cook at Nootka Sound / Noel Elizabeth Currie

Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 212 pages) : illustrations Series McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; no. 48 McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; no. 48. Contents 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 -- Z Summary "While Captain James Cook's South Pacific voyages have been extensively studied, much less attention has been paid to his representation of the Pacific Northwest. In Constructing Colonial Discourse, N.E. Currie focuses on Cook's 1778 voyage to Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island." "Comparing the official 1784 edition of Cook's journal for that voyage with Cook's actual journal accounts, Currie demonstrates that the representation of North America's northwest coast in the late eighteenth century was shaped as much by the publication process as by British notions of landscape, natural history, cannibalism, and history in the new world. Most recent scholarship on imperialist representations of the non-European world takes these published accounts at face value. 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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Cook, James, 1728-1779. SUBJECT Cook, James, 1728-1779 fast Cook, James. swd Subject Nuu-chah-nulth Indians -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History -- Sources Ethnocentrism -- Europe Postcolonialism. postcolonialism. HISTORY -- Canada -- General. HISTORY -- Expeditions & Discoveries. Discoveries in geography -- British Ethnocentrism Nuu-chah-nulth Indians Postcolonialism Ethnocentrisme -- Europe. Nootka (Indiens) -- Colombie-Britannique -- Vancouver, Île de -- Histoire -- Sources. Postcolonialisme. SUBJECT Nootka Sound (B.C.) -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- Sources Subject British Columbia -- Vancouver Island Europe Pacific Ocean -- Nootka Sound Nootka Sound Nootka, D.troit de (C.-B.) -- Découverte et exploration britanniques -- Sources. Indianer. Nootka. Genre/Form Electronic books History Sources Form Electronic book LC no. 2006282501 ISBN 9780773572973 077357297X 1282863614 9781282863613 9786612863615 6612863617

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