Mapping Ultima Thule Representations of North Greenland in the Expedition Accounts of Knud Rasmussen

• Main Author: Lubowicka, Agata (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2020
• Series: Studien zur Germanistik, Skandinavistik und Uebersetzungskultur 21
• Subjects: Biography & True Stories; Semantics, discourse analysis, etc; Prose: non-fiction; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Accounts; Arctic discourses; Colonial discourse; Danish literature; ekspedycji; Expedition; Greenland; Greenlandic Other; Grenlandii; Knud; Knuda; Kopernika; Lubowicka; Mapping; Mikołaja; Naukowe; North; Północnej; Postcolonial theory; Rasmussen; Rasmussena; relacjach; Representation theory; Representations; Reprezentacje; sercu; Thule; Ultima; Uniwersytetu; Wydawnictwo
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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.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (284 p.)

ISBN

b16308
9783631801635
9783631801642
9783631801659
9783631797648

Access

Open Access