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The book addresses the relationship between the literary representations of North Greenland and the Inughuit people in Knud Rasmussen’s expedition accounts The New People and My Travel Diary and the historical process of Danish colonization of North Greenland. The aim of reading both works is to dem...

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Language:English
Published: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2021
Subjects:
Greenland
Inughuit
North Greenland
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Inughuit
North Greenland
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North Greenland
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