Exceedingly Good Friends
” The Representation of Indigenous People during the Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic, 1847-59
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10867798 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eavan O’dochartaigh (0000-0001-5529-5625, corresponding author), O'Dochartaigh O'Dochartaigh |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 255 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/victorianstudies.61.2.10 |
| OpenAlex | W2951385908 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay investigates the textual and visual representation of indigenous people during the Franklin search expeditions to the Arctic in the mid-nineteenth century. The representations derive from two distinct maritime "contact zones," to use Mary Louise Pratt's term, and show differences that can be attributed to the temporal nature of the contact (4). I explore the ways in which the prolonged immobility of a ship over-wintering in the ice near indigenous communities led to the development of genuine interpersonal relationships, a phenomenon reflected in the graphic and textual material from the expeditions. By contrasting these encounters with a third type of contact zone—that of an isolated ship in the Arctic ice where seamen and officers lived in close proximity—this essay throws their respect for indigenous individuals into sharp relief
Arctic · Biology · Contact zone · Epistemology · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Phenomenon · Political science · Representation (politics · The arctic · Ecology · Geology · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Oceanography · Philosophy · Polar Research and Ecology · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |