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

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 d...

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Main Author: Françoise BESSON
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2014-07-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/3835
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1638-1718