Constructing Colonial Discourse
Cook at Nootka Sound, 1778
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2005
- Subjects
- General, Expeditions & Discoveries
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773572973
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $110.00
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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.
About the author
Noel Elizabeth Currie is an instructor in the Department of English, Langara College.