From ”naked country” to ”sheltering ice”: Rudy Wiebe’s Revisionist Treatment of John Franklin’s First Arctic Narrative

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur

Susan Birkwood¹ 

[1] Carleton University;

关键词: Canadian literature;    1900-1999;    Wiebe;    Rudy (b. 1934);    A Discovery of Strangers (1994);    novel;   

DOI  :  10.7557/13.1161

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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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