From ”naked country” to ”sheltering ice”: Rudy Wiebe’s Revisionist Treatment of John Franklin’s First Arctic Narrative
Rudy Wiebe's A Discovery of Strangers (1994) offers a revisionist construction of Franklin's first expedition to find the North-West Passage, one that attempts to show the disparate views of the landscape held by the British explorers and the Yellowknife of the Coppermine region-one of the...
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ftcarletonunivir:oai:carleton.ca:12451 2023-05-15T14:58:59+02:00 From ”naked country” to ”sheltering ice”: Rudy Wiebe’s Revisionist Treatment of John Franklin’s First Arctic Narrative Birkwood, M. (M. Susan) 2008-02-01 application/pdf https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/12451 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1161 en eng UiT The Arctic University of Norway https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/12451 doi:10.7557/13.1161 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Nordlit vol. 12 no. 1, pp. 25-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2008 ftcarletonunivir https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1161 2022-02-06T21:52:02Z Rudy Wiebe's A Discovery of Strangers (1994) offers a revisionist construction of Franklin's first expedition to find the North-West Passage, one that attempts to show the disparate views of the landscape held by the British explorers and the Yellowknife of the Coppermine region-one of the Dene peoples-and to sound a warning about the devastating effects of the arrogant will to dominate the environment. True to the conventions of historical fiction, Wiebe, makes Franklin, himself, a largely peripheral figure, choosing to focus on lesser known participants in the events of 1821. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic North West Passage Yellowknife Carleton University's Institutional Repository Arctic Yellowknife Nordlit 12 1 25 |
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Rudy Wiebe's A Discovery of Strangers (1994) offers a revisionist construction of Franklin's first expedition to find the North-West Passage, one that attempts to show the disparate views of the landscape held by the British explorers and the Yellowknife of the Coppermine region-one of the Dene peoples-and to sound a warning about the devastating effects of the arrogant will to dominate the environment. True to the conventions of historical fiction, Wiebe, makes Franklin, himself, a largely peripheral figure, choosing to focus on lesser known participants in the events of 1821. |
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From ”naked country” to ”sheltering ice”: Rudy Wiebe’s Revisionist Treatment of John Franklin’s First Arctic Narrative |
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