Constructing Colonial Discourse: Cook at Nootka Sound, 1778 (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)

by Noel Elizabeth Currie

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.

232 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2005