Mapping Ultima Thule : representations of North Greenland in the expedition accounts of Knud Rasmussen / Agata Lubowicka ; translated by Patrycja Poniatowska.
"The book addresses the relationship between the literary representations of North Greenland and the Inughuit people in Knud Rasmussen's expedition accounts The New People and My Travel Diary and the historical process of Danish colonization of North Greenland. The aim of reading both work...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English Polish |
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Berlin ; New York, NY :
Peter Lang,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studien zur Germanistik, Skandinavistik und Übersetzungskultur ;
Bd 21. |
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | "The book addresses the relationship between the literary representations of North Greenland and the Inughuit people in Knud Rasmussen's expedition accounts The New People and My Travel Diary and the historical process of Danish colonization of North Greenland. The aim of reading both works is to demonstrate the ambivalence in representing North Greenland and the Inughuit, and, through this, to prove the existence of common mechanisms and cultural practices connected to mapping of the Other in a situation of asymmetric power relations. Applying a textual approach founded on colonial discourse analysis, the reading proves that literary mappings of geography and identity can never be stable, as they are in the state of constant transformation, perpetually recontextualized and reinvented"-- |
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| Item Description: | "The publication of the Polish version of the book was funded by the Foundation for Polish Science's programme "Monographs" in 2017" -- Verso title page. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783631801635 3631801637 9783631801642 3631801645 9783631801659 3631801653 9783631797648 3631797648 |
| ISSN: | 2192-3310 ; |