Constructing Colonial Discourse

Cook at Nootka Sound, 1778

By N. E. Currie
Categories: History
Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Show Edition Details

Hardcover : 9780773529151, 232 pages, August 2005
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773572973, 232 pages, August 2005

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.