Shankar Raman

Renaissance Literatures and Postcolonial Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

AUTHOR APPROVED BLURB Postcolonial Literary Studies Series Editors: David Johnson and Ania Loomba This series examines how Postcolonial Studies reconfigures the major periods and areas of literature. The books relate key literary and cultural texts both to their historical and geographical contexts, and to contemporary issues of neo-colonialism and global inequality. Each volume provides a comprehensive survey of the existing field of scholarship and debate, and is also an original intervention in its own right. Each book includes: a time line; an introductory literature survey; discussion of critical, theoretical, historical and political debates; exemplary critical readings of literary texts; and further reading. Renaissance Literature and Postcolonial Studies Shankar Raman Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery' In what ways have colonial and postcolonial studies transformed our perceptions of early modern European texts and images? How have those perceptions enriched our broader understanding of the colonial and the postcolonial? Focusing on English, Portuguese, Spanish and French colonial projects, Shankar Raman explains how encounters with new worlds and peoples irrevocably shaped both Europeans and their 'others'. There are in-depth case studies on: the Portuguese drama and epic of Gil Vicente and Luis Vaz de Camões; travel narratives and exotic engravings from Theodore de Bry's influential compilations; and the English plays and verse of Christopher Marlowe, John Donne and Richard Brome. Key Features * Introduces readers to the careful reading of visual sources as a complement to textual analysis * Emphasises the importance of comparative work in literary studies of colonialism: see especially the discussion of Adam Olearius' travels in Chapter 2 as well as the case studies of Portuguese literary texts and de Bry Shankar Raman is an Associate Professor in the Literature Fac

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780748636839
• ISBN-10: 0748636838
• Artikelnr.: 33872642

Autorenporträt

Shankar Raman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Literature at MIT. He is the author of Framing "India": The Colonial Imaginary in Early Modern Culture (Stanford University Press, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Timeline 1
Exploring the Terrain Renaissance Anti-colonialisms Imperial Translations
Cannibals Gender and Race Difference and Repetition 2 Debates Texts and
Contexts Tempestuous Histories Postcolonial Reactivations of The Tempest
Theory after Shakespeare Others and Selves Ireland: Civilised Selves and
Barbarous Others Spain and Turkey: Protestantism and its Others Thinking
Differently about Others: Olearius' Travels 3 Case Studies Two Ways of
Looking at Colonial Beginnings Unfinished Histories: Gil Vicente's Auto da
Índia History as Myth: Luis Vaz de Camões' Os Lusíadas Two Ways of Writing
the Heathen Writing the New World Native: de Bry's America I Writing the
Chinese: de Bry's India Orientalis II The Brome-an Empire: Wonder and
Theatre in The Antipodes Can't Buy me Love: John Donne's "Loves Progress"
Revolutions that Have No Model: Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great Primary
Works Cited Secondary Works Cited Further Reading Index