[{"key":"dc.contributor.author","value":"Currie, Noel Elizabeth","language":null},{"key":"dc.coverage.spatial","value":"Nootka Sound (B.C.)","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.date.accessioned","value":"2009-04-14T18:47:28Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.available","value":"2009-04-14T18:47:28Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.issued","value":"1994","language":null},{"key":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/7049","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.abstract","value":"This dissertation examines the workings of various colonial discourses in the texts of Captain James\r\nCook\u2019s third Pacific voyage. Specifically, it focusses on the month spent at Nootka Sound (on the west coast\r\nof Vancouver Island) in 1778. The textual discrepancies between the official 1784 edition by Bishop Douglas,\r\nA Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and J.C. Beaglehole\u2019 s scholarly edition of 1967, The Voyage of the Resolution\r\nand Discovery 1776-1780, reveal that Cook\u2019s Voyages present not an archive of European scientific and\r\nhistorical knowledge about the new world but the deployment of colonial discourses. Examining this relatively\r\nspecific moment as discourse expands a critical sense of the importance of Cook\u2019s Voyages as cultural\r\ndocuments, for the twentieth century as well as for the eighteenth.\r\nChapters One and Two consider the mutually interdependent discourses of aesthetics and science:\r\nbased upon assumptions of \u201cobjectivity,\u2019 they distance the observing subject from the object observed, in time\r\nas well as in space. Chapter Three traces the development of the trope of cannibalism and argues that this\r\ntrope works in the editions of Cook\u2019s third voyage to further distance the Nootka from Europeans by textually\r\nestablishing what looked like savagery. Chapter Four examines the historical construction of Cook as imperial\r\nculture hero, for eighteenth-century England, Western Europe, and the settler cultures that followed in his wake.\r\nTaken separately and together, these colonial discourses are employed in the accounts of Cook\u2019s month at\r\nNootka Sound to justify and rationalise England\u2019s claim to appropriation of the territory.\r\nThe purpose of these colonial discourses is to fix meaning and to present themselves as natural; the\r\npurpose of my dissertation is to disrupt such constructions. I therefore disrupt my own discourse with a series\r\nof digressions, signalled by a different typeface. They allow me to pursue lines of thought related tangentially\r\nto the main arguments and thus to investigate the wider concerns of the culture that produced Cook\u2019s voyages,\r\nThey also give me the opportunity to interrogate my own critical methodology and assumptions. Ultimately\r\nI aim not to create another, more convincing construction of Cook and his month at Nootka Sound, but to\r\nilluminate a cultural process, a way of making meaning that is part of his intellectual legacy.","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.format.extent","value":"9715185 bytes","language":null},{"key":"dc.format.mimetype","value":"application\/pdf","language":null},{"key":"dc.language.iso","value":"eng","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.publisher","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.rights","value":"For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/terms_of_use.","language":null},{"key":"dc.title","value":"Captain Cook at Nootka Sound and some questions of colonial discourse","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type","value":"Text","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.name","value":"Doctor of Philosophy - PhD","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.discipline","value":"English","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.grantor","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.graduation","value":"1994-11","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type.text","value":"Thesis\/Dissertation","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Arts, Faculty of","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"English, Department of","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.campus","value":"UBCV","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.scholarlevel","value":"Graduate","language":"en"}]