Early Modern Global South in Print
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Author_Sandra Young
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cartographic representation
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colonial knowledge production
colonial violence studies
cosmographiae
Cosmographiae Introductio
Early Modern
Early Modern Cartography
early modern epistemology
Early Modern Geographies
East Indies
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geographers
Geographical Historie
hakluyt
Hans Burgkmair
Harriot's Report
Harriot's Text
images
Indies
introductio
John Pory
Leo Africanus
mapping human difference in history
Merchant Adventurers
Modern Language
Natural Historical Language
Newfound Land
Pory's Translation
Pory’s Translation
racial formation theory
Rhumb Line
richard
Sixteenth Century Natural History
theodor
Torrid Zones
Tradescant Collection
travel narrative analysis
Vespucci's Letters
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woodcut
Woodcut Images
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781472453716
- Weight: 584g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Young’s inquiry into the partisan knowledge practices of early modernity brings to light the emergence of the early modern global south. Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north. Through maps, images and even textual formatting, equivalences were established between ’new’ worlds, many of them long known to European explorers, she argues, in terms that made explicit the divide between ’north’ and ’south.’ This book takes seriously the role of form in shaping meaning and its ideological consequences. Young examines, in turn, the representational methodologies, or ’artes,’ deployed in mapping the ’whole’ world: illustrating, creating charts for navigation, noting down observations, collecting and cataloguing curiosities, reporting events, formatting materials, and editing and translating old sources. By tracking these methodologies in the lines of beauty and evidence on the page, we can see how early modern producers of knowledge were able to attribute alterity to the ’southern climes’ of an increasingly complex world, while securing their own place within it.
Sandra Young is Professor, and Convenor of the Masters Program, in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
