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Contents

IIntroduction

1 Greenland and Greenlanders in Danish Discourse

2 Knud Rasmussen

3 Research on Knud Rasmussen’s Literary Work

4 The Structure of the Book

5 Terminology

5.1 Cultural and telluric Other

5.2 Inuit, Inughuit, Eskimos and Greenlanders

5.3 North Greenland

5.4 The spelling of local names and words in the Greenlandic language

5.5 The primary literature

II Postcolonial Studies

1 Colonial Discourse and Representation Analysis

2 The Split Subject and Ambivalence

3 Colonialism and the Discourse of Polar Expeditions: Polar Literature as a Product of Their Liaisons

III Encounters with the Cultural Other in the Land of the New People

1 The Literary Expedition to Greenland, 1902–1904

2 The Subject’s Preconceptions about North Greenland and the Inughuit

3 North Greenland and the Inughuit as the Other

3.1 The Eskimo Arcadia and Arcadians: Disrupting the Idealisation Trope

3.2 The Eskimos are Primitive: Subverting the Essentialisation Trope

3.3 We and Others: Reversing and Interrogating Binary Oppositions

3.4 The Inughuit as the “Infinitely Other”: (Missing) Exoticisation

4 North Greenland and the Inughuit: An Indigenous Myth Perspective

5 The Narrator’s Voice vs. Native Voices: Master Narrative and Heteroglossia

6 The New People in the Historical Context

IV Mapping Ultima Thule: Encounters with the Telluric Other

1 The First Thule Expedition, 1912–1913

2 The Split Subject: The Scientist’s Authority vs. the Arctic Hunter’s Instinct

3 The Male Journey and the Male Adventure

3.1 The Icesheet and North-East Greenland as a Dangerous Wilderness: Heroisation and Sensationalism

3.2 A Place “Away from Home”: Home vs. Away

3.3 Chasing the Scholarly Goals: The Activity-vs.-Passivity Opposition

3.4 The Inughuit as Representatives of Nature: The Culture-vs.-Nature Opposition

3.5 Destabilising Binary Oppositions at the Basis of the Polar Explorers’ Male Heroism

4 North Greenland as Terra Feminarum

4.1 Scientific Masculinity: Erasing, Charting and Measuring

4.2 Aesthetic Masculinity: East Greenland and the Icesheet as a Source of the Sublime

5 Resistance to Othering through Scientific and Aesthetic Masculinity

5.1 North Greenland as a Source of the Telluric Horror and a Measurement-Resisting Place

5.2 North Greenland as a Place with a History of Its Own: Language, History and Inughuit Voices

5.3 “Being within the Landscape” and Dismantling the Primacy of Visual Perception

5.4 The Space of the Indigenous Myth

6 My Travel Diary in the Historical Context

V Conclusion

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index of Names