Constructing Colonial Discourse: Cook at Nootka Sound, 1778

N. E. Currie

McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Aug 29, 2005 - Literary Criticism - 232 pages

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Constructing Colonial Discourse: Cook at Nootka Sound, 1778; Volume 48 of McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
• Author: N. E. Currie
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2005
• ISBN: 077357297X, 9780773572973
• Length: 232 pages
• Subjects: History / Expeditions & Discoveries; Literary Criticism / General