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The book addresses the relationship between the historical process of the Danish colonization of North Greenland and the literary representations of North Greenland and the Inughuit people in Knud Rasmussen’s expedition accounts The New People and My Travel Diary. The two works are read side by side to showcase the ambivalence inherent in representing North Greenland and the Inughuit, and, through this, to highlight common mechanisms and cultural practices involved in the mapping of the Other in the context of asymmetrical power relations. Applying a textual approach founded on colonial discourse analysis, the reading asserts that literary mappings of geography and identity can never be stable, as they are in a constant flux, perpetually recontextualized and reinvented.