Indography [electronic resource] : Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England /
Harris, J.editor.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to consider the proximities and distances between various early modern discourses of the Indian. Through new analysis of English travel writing, medical treatises, literature, and drama, contributors seek not just to recover unexpected counter-histories but to put pressure on the ways in which we understand race, foreign bodies, and identity in a globalizing age that has still not shed deeply ingrained imperialist habits of marking difference.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Forms of Indography; I Indology: Discovery, Ethnography, Pathology; 1 How to Make an Indian: Religion, Trade, and Translation in the Legends of Mõnçaide and Gaspar da Gama; 2 Looking for Loss, Anticipating Absence: Imagining Indians in the Archives and Depictions of Roanoke's Lost Colony; 3 From First Encounter to "Fiery Oven": The Effacement of the New England Indian in Mourt's Relation and Histories of the Pequot War; 4 Trafficking in Tangomóckomindge: Ethnographic Materials in Harriot's A Briefe and True Report
5 Translation and Identity in the Dialogues in the English and Malaiane Languages6 Playing Indian: John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Dialogue about a Chain of Pearl; 7 Tobacco, Union, and the Indianized English; 8 Sick Ethnography: Recording the Indian and the Ill English Body; II Indopoesis: Poetry, Drama, Romance; 9 Spenser's "Men of Inde": Mythologizing the Indian through the Genealogy of Faeries; 10 From Lunacy to Faith: Orlando's Own Private India in Robert Greene's Orlando Furioso
11 "Enter Orlando with a scarf before his face": Indians, Moors, and the Properties of Racial Transformation in Robert Greene's The Historie of Orlando Furioso12 "Does this become you, Princess?": East Indian Ethopoetics in John Fletcher's The Island Princess; 13 Playing an Indian Queen: Neoplatonism, Ethnography, and The Temple of Love; 14 Made in India: How Meriton Latroon Became an Englishman; 15 "A Well-Born Race": Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter;  or, The History of Bacon in Virginia and the Place of Proximity; Afterword: Naming and Un-Naming "all the Indies": How India Became Hindustan
Notes on ContributorsIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to consider the proximities and distances between various early modern discourses of the Indian. Through new analysis of English travel writing, medical treatises, literature, and drama, contributors seek not just to recover unexpected counter-histories but to put pressure on the ways in which we understand race, foreign bodies, and identity in a globalizing age that has still not shed deeply ingrained imperialist habits of marking difference.
Ethnology.
Literature.
Great Britain—History.
Europe—History.
British literature.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Literature, general.
History of Britain and Ireland.
European History.
British and Irish Literature.