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Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds (Published by the ... Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo) - Softcover

Voigt, Lisa

 
9780807859445: Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds (Published by the ... Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807859443 ISBN 13: 9780807859445
Verlag: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. But as Voigt demonstrates, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. Voigt’s examination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts reveals another early modern discourse about captivity — one that valorized the knowledge and mediating abilities acquired by captives through cross-cultural experience. Voigt demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions. Using fictional and nonfictional, canonical and little-known works about captivity in Europe, North Africa, and the Americas, Voigt exposes the circulation of texts, discourses, and peoples across cultural borders and in both directions across the Atlantic.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lisa Voigt is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Chicago and visiting associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the Ohio State University.

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Verlag
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807859443
ISBN 13 
9780807859445
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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