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My dissertation investigates the reality and ideology of colonial governance in the Province of Venezuela through sixteenth-century German, Spanish, and Italian maps and travel narratives. Through cartography, I trace the changing political and economic dimensions of the Welser company's desire to conquer the torrid zones. The Welsers, the Augsburg patrician and banking family, never sought to govern the Venezuelan province, but rather used a variety of strategies to increase profits, including a monopoly on the (legal) African and indigenous (illegal) slave trade. Chapter One analyzes the development of cartography in Germany and its relationship to developing mercantilism as a result of the Southern German/Venetian/Portuguese spice trade. In this chapter I pay particular attention to the circulation of Marco Polo's Milione and the Travels of Sir John Mandeville in the Southern German lands in the late fifteenth-century; German merchants such as Martin Behaim used Marco Polo's fabulous legends along with more recent discovery reports to try to gain funds to further partake in voyages of discovery. Likewise, a German translation of Columbus' letter of discovery adds marvelous elements to his description of cannibals found in the New World. Chapter Two links cartography to the Welsers' interest in genealogy, and to their desire for noble recognition from the Habsburgs. Chapter Three turns to actual conquest and analyzes Niclaus Federmann's Indianische Historia (1557). My interpretation of Federmann's preoccupations with gifts and written missives relies on Marcel Mauss's theory of the gift and on Jacques Lacan's observations on purloined letters. In Chapter Four I interpret Hispanic critical views of the German presence in South America. Beginning with the Friar Bartolome de Las Casas's pun of animales/ alemanes (animals/Germans), Spanish letters created a Black Legend that depicts the Germans as barbaric heretics and the Spanish conquistadors and colonizers as pious and industrious. The final chapter investigates the repercussions of this polemic in Venezuelan and German historiography and fiction: In Venezuela, the myth of an independent Spanish-American nation drives the anti-German effort to cast colonial history as purely Iberian. In nineteenth-century Germany the Venezuelan colonization venture fuels the desire for German colonization in Africa. In the Nationalist Socialist era conquistadors like Federmann symbolize the Aryan fight to conquer foreign lands. I ultimately investigate the links between German colonialism in the Renaissance period and Germany's late arrival unto the imperial era. The Welser episode, I suggest, causes Germany to reimagine itself as a colonial power in the Imperial era and through the Third Reich. In addition to opening a new venue of research, my interdisciplinary approach deciphers archival materials, illustrations that accompany New World chronicles and maps, travel narratives and legal documents. Thus, my dissertation is the first systematic study of the importance of this episode to both German and Venezuelan cultural history.
Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, New Worlds from Old Texts explores ancient Greek perceptions of space, and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view.
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region
Representing the New World argues for the importance of Spain in the New World as an example of France and England in their efforts to establish colonies and suggests that this example was ambivalent and contradictory as well as surprisingly persistent in the representations of Spain in French and English texts concerning the Americas.
This volume presents in-depth and contextualized analyses of a wealth of visual materials. The images included in the book provide readers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the early modern world was interpreted by image-makers and presented to viewers during a period that spans from manuscript culture to the age of caricature.
Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest , and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. This book brings the comparative study of the cultural past of the Americas and the Atlantic world into focus as it relates to the present.
Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were portrayed in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manuscripts and early printed books. The essays analyse a wide variety of texts to offer new insights into the ways in which the language and imagery of politics and justice permeated medieval French culture.
Winner, 2020 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award, Edited Volume Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609–1610—one of the most famous cannibalism narratives in North American colonial history—cannibalism played an important role in shaping the human relationship to food, hunger, and moral outrage. Why did colonial invaders go out of their way to accuse women of cannibalism? What challenges did Spaniards face in trying to explain Eucharist rites to Native peoples? What roles did preconceived notions about non-Europeans play in inflating accounts of cannibalism in Christopher Columbus’s reports as they moved through Italian merchant circles? Asking questions such as these and exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumors facilitated slavery and the rise of empires, To Feast on Us as Their Prey posits that it is impossible to separate histories of cannibalism from the role food and hunger have played in the colonization efforts that shaped our modern world.
Focuses on authorial representations of contested reality in qualitative research.This book focuses on representations of contested realities in qualitative research. The authors examine two separate, but interrelated, issues: criticisms of how researchers use "voice," and suggestions about how to develop experimental voices that expand the range of narrative strategies. Changing relationships between researchers and respondents dictate alterations in textual representations--from the "view from nowhere" to the view from a particular location, and from the omniscient voice to the polyvocality of communities of individuals. Examples of new representations and textual experiments provide models for how some authors have struggled with voice in their texts, and in so doing, broaden who they and we mean by "us."