Indography
Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England
Published on 8. May 2012
Book
Hardback
VII, 271 pages
978-0-230-39642-5 (ISBN)
Description
Indography considers literary and non-literary representations of Indians in early modern English writing in relation to processes of globalization and race formation.
Reviews / Votes
'In 1614, Samuel Purchas noted that India was a term that had begun to be used to describe 'all farre-distant Countries.' This volume is a careful, thought-provoking and wide-ranging analysis of the meaning, implications and consequences of that usage. It uncovers the astonishing diversity of peoples and locations signified by the term in early modern English writings. Even more important, it tracks the connections between the different 'Indians' forged through material as well as imaginative channels. 'India' and 'Indians' emerge as important points of entry into the early histories and discourses of globalization. An important and illuminating book.' - Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania "The geographic miscalculation that persuaded Columbus to identify the New World as part of 'India' is at once so gross and so familiar that its imaginative consequences have never seemed to deserve serious consideration. The brilliant tessellation of essays that make up Indography show how mistaken that neglect has been. By opening a fascinating variety of perspectives on the many 'Indias' of the Renaissance imaginary, Gil Harris and his contributors promise to transform our understanding of early modern ethnography and its relation to the discourses of trade and empire." - Michael Neill, emeritus professor of English, University of AucklandMore details
Series
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan US
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-0-230-39642-5 (9780230396425)
DOI
10.1057/9781137090768
Schweitzer Classification
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04/2012
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Person
Jonathan Gil Harris is a professor of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England; Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism and Disease; Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare; Shakespeare and Literary Theory; and Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise. He is the editor, with Natasha Korda, of Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama, and the editor of the 3rd New Mermaids edition of Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday. He is also associate editor of Shakespeare Quarterly.
Content
Introduction: Forms of Indography; J.G.Harris PART I: INDOLOGY: DISCOVERY, ETHNOGRAPHY, PATHOLOGY How To Make an Indian: Religion, Trade, and Translation in the Legends of Mõnçaide and Gaspar da Gama; B.Malieckal Looking for Loss, Anticipating Absence: Imagining Indians in the Archives and Depictions of Roanoke's Lost Colony; G.Caison From First Encounter to 'Fiery Oven': The Effacement of the New England Indian in Mourt's Relation and Histories of the Pequot War; T.Cartelli Trafficking in Tangomóckomindge: Ethnographic Materials in Harriot's A Briefe and True Report; K.Boettcher Translation and Identity in the Dialogues in the English and Malaiane Languages; M.Walter Playing Indian: John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Dialogue about a Chain of Pearl; K.Robertson Tobacco, Union, and The Indianized English; C.Rustici Sick Ethnography: Recording the Indian and the Ill English Body; J.G.Harris PART II: INDOPOESIS: POETRY, DRAMA, ROMANCE Spenser's 'Men of Inde': Mythologizing the Indian through the Genealogy of Faeries; M.Hollings From Lunacy to Faith: Orlando's Own Private India in Robert Greene's Orlando Furioso; J.W.Stone 'Enter Orlando with a scarf before his face': Indians, Moors, and the Properties of Racial Transformation in Robert Greene's The Historie of Orlando Furioso; G.Hollis 'Does this become you, Princess?': East Indian Ethopoetics in John Fletcher's The Island Princess; J.Tran Playing an Indian Queen: Neoplatonism, Ethnography, and The Temple of Love; A.Sen Made in India: How Meriton Latroon Became an Englishman; C.Nocentelli 'A Well-Born Race': Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia and the Place of Proximity; S.Eaton Afterword: Naming and Un-naming 'all the Indies': How India Became Hindustan; J.G.Singh