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Title

  • Mapping Ultima Thule : representations of North Greenland in the expedition accounts of Knud Rasmussen

Other Title

  • Representations of North Greenland in the expedition accounts of Knud Rasmussen

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Lubowicka, Agata, 1979- author

Created / Published

  • Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang, 2019.

Contents

  • Introduction -- I. Postcolonial studies -- 2 Encounters with the Cultural Other in the Land of the New People -- 3 Mapping Ultima Thule: Encounters with the Telluric Other -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Index of names.

Headings

  • -  Rasmussen, Knud,--1879-1933
  • -  Thule Expedition
  • -  Explorers--Denmark--Biography
  • -  Inuit
  • -  Greenland--Discovery and exploration--Danish

Notes

  • -  "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.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  First published as: by Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika (Toruń), c 2017.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G635.R3

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019043982

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  • Unrestricted online access

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Chicago citation style:

Lubowicka, Agata, Author. Mapping Ultima Thule: representations of North Greenland in the expedition accounts of Knud Rasmussen. Berlin ; New York: Peter Lang, 2019. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019043982/.

APA citation style:

Lubowicka, A. (2019) Mapping Ultima Thule: representations of North Greenland in the expedition accounts of Knud Rasmussen. Berlin ; New York: Peter Lang. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019043982/.

MLA citation style:

Lubowicka, Agata, Author. Mapping Ultima Thule: representations of North Greenland in the expedition accounts of Knud Rasmussen. Berlin ; New York: Peter Lang, 2019. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019043982/>.