| Description |
xxii, 426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: On Describing Ourselves Describing ̃Ourselves:̃ Comparatism, Differences, and Pluritopic Hermeneutics -- Pt. 1. The Colonization of Languages. Ch. 1. Nebrija in the New World: Renaissance Philosophy of Language and the Spread of Western Literacy. Ch. 2. The Materiality of Reading and Writing Cultures: The Chain of Sounds, Graphic Signs, and Sign Carriers -- Pt. 2. The Colonization of Memory. Ch. 3. Record Keeping without Letters and Writing Histories of People without History. Ch. 4. Genres as Social Practices: Histories, Enkyclopaideias, and the Limits of Knowledge and Understanding -- Pt. 3. The Colonization of Space. Ch. 5. The Movable Center: Ethnicity, Geometric Projections, and Coexisting Territorialities. Ch. 6. Putting the Americas on the Map: Cartography and the Colonization of Space -- Afterword On Modernity, Colonization, and the Rise of Occidentalism |
| Summary |
The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization is a long-awaited contribution to colonial studies, destined to be influential across a range of disciplines. This broad and ambitious work examines the role of language in the colonization of the New World by weaving together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, geography, and cultural theory. The Darker Side of the Renaissance significantly challenges our understanding of New World history. It will stimulate Renaissance and New World scholarship, speak to debates in current anthropology, augment our understanding of linguistics, and provide models for colonial and postcolonial scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-413) and index |
| Subject |
Indians -- Historiography.
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Renaissance -- Spain.
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Language and history -- Latin America.
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Indians -- Languages -- Writing.
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Writing -- History.
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Cartography -- Spain -- History.
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Latin America -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116021
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Latin America -- History -- To 1600.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074896
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Latin America http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074879 -- Maps http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002035 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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| LC no. |
94036501 |
| ISBN |
047210327X alkaline paper |
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