Written Culture in a Colonial Context : Africa and the Americas 1500-1900книга
Аннотация: In late 16th and early 17th-century Holland, lovers of navigational books would all have been familiar with a house in Damrak in central Amsterdam.Belonging to the printer Cornelis Claesz, the building was distinguished by a sign 'Writing Book on the Water, by the Old Bridge' (In' Schrijfboek op't Water bij de oude Brugghe), which announced the presence of a bookshop operating from the premises.Inside, traders, investors and navigators came to select books from a rich stock of maritime travel accounts, atlases, seamen's guides and cartographic manuals pertaining to all areas of the known world.The sign was indeed apt: knowledge about various parts of the world had travelled across the water and was captured in books concentrated in the house by the bridge in Damrak.Claesz's bookshop features in this volume, in the piece by Adrien Delmas on the systems of writing and record-keeping used by the VOC.This sign of 'writing on water' is an appropriate symbol for the rich innovation of this book.This brave collection takes the idea of 'writing' and turns it into a fluid domain in which disciplines can speak to each other in new ways.The collection uses writing as a way to bring together different areas of the world -rather like Claesz's shop, which housed books about many parts of the globe and attracted customers from far and wide.The collection makes us think about 'writing' in new ways; metaphorically, it puts the idea of writing all at sea.It is appropriate that the papers in this collection originated from a workshop held in Cape Town, historically an entrepôt where people and goods from Africa, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean encountered each other.The papers provide new intersections, namely, between scholars of Africa and those of Latin America, two regions of the world generally kept apart by the Cold War area studies map that still dominates the academy.These juxtapositions not
Год издания: 2011
Авторы: Adrien Delmas, Nigel Penn
Ключевые слова: American Literature and Humor Studies, Colonialism, slavery, and trade
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