Le Journal et les aquarelles de Robert Hood : une œuvre du paradoxe

• Published in: E-rea
• Main Author: Françoise BESSON
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2014
• Subjects: Robert Hood; Arctic; Canada; First Nations; Aboriginal People; Cree; English language; PE1-3729; Social sciences (General); H1-99; North West Passage
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/erea.3835; https://doaj.org/article/6313cdcebdd54680833c0f01fc5c01dc

Robert Hood was a member of the first Franklin expedition in search of the North West Passage. His journal, his paintings and drawings, while products of colonial times, may nevertheless be considered collectively as a treatise of respect and tolerance providing interesting keys to otherness. Hood discusses difference, exchange and principally respect for both humans, whatever his or her culture, and animals. Though primarily a journal for the Admiralty and the English reading public, Hood’s text and pictures suggest a wider, philosophical reading of otherness. This unfinished text addresses the paradox of a colonial text eventually becoming a philosophical work, engaging with otherness.