Representing Akaitcho: European vision and revision in the writing of John Franklin's narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea.
This article compares the representations of aboriginal people, and especially the Yellowknife leader Akaitcho, in the journal written by John Franklin during his first expedition (1819-1822) and the narrative he published in 1823. In the introduction to his 1995 Champlain Society edition of Frankli...
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ftcarletonunivir:oai:carleton.ca:15617 2023-05-15T18:02:37+02:00 Representing Akaitcho: European vision and revision in the writing of John Franklin's narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea. Cavell, J. (Janice) 2008-01-01 https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/15617 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247407006936 en eng https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/15617 doi:10.1017/S0032247407006936 Polar Record vol. 44 no. 1, pp. 25-34 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2008 ftcarletonunivir https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247407006936 2022-02-06T21:50:48Z This article compares the representations of aboriginal people, and especially the Yellowknife leader Akaitcho, in the journal written by John Franklin during his first expedition (1819-1822) and the narrative he published in 1823. In the introduction to his 1995 Champlain Society edition of Franklin's journal, Richard Davis claims that when revising the journal for publication, Franklin changed his original entries so as to present an unfavourable, stereotyped image of Akaitcho to the British reading public. However, comparison of the relevant passages shows that, while Franklin evidently viewed Akaitcho with distrust during much of the expedition, he later, and on reflection, changed his opinion so that it became much more favourable, and accordingly altered the journal entries in order to do Akaitcho justice. These facts cast doubt on the interpretation of the first Franklin expedition put forward by Davis and others. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Record Yellowknife Carleton University's Institutional Repository Yellowknife Polar Record 44 1 25 34 |
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This article compares the representations of aboriginal people, and especially the Yellowknife leader Akaitcho, in the journal written by John Franklin during his first expedition (1819-1822) and the narrative he published in 1823. In the introduction to his 1995 Champlain Society edition of Franklin's journal, Richard Davis claims that when revising the journal for publication, Franklin changed his original entries so as to present an unfavourable, stereotyped image of Akaitcho to the British reading public. However, comparison of the relevant passages shows that, while Franklin evidently viewed Akaitcho with distrust during much of the expedition, he later, and on reflection, changed his opinion so that it became much more favourable, and accordingly altered the journal entries in order to do Akaitcho justice. These facts cast doubt on the interpretation of the first Franklin expedition put forward by Davis and others. |
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Representing Akaitcho: European vision and revision in the writing of John Franklin's narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea. |
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