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Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds (Published for the ... History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
Lisa Voigt
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Paperback. Demonstrates that tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. This work also demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
This work dismantles stereotypes of the captivity narrative. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. But as Lisa Voigt demonstrates, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. Voigt's examination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts reveals another early modern discourse about captivity - one that valorized the knowledge and mediating abilities acquired by captives through cross-cultural experience.Voigt demonstrates how the flexible identities ... Read more
This work dismantles stereotypes of the captivity narrative. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. But as Lisa Voigt demonstrates, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. Voigt's examination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts reveals another early modern discourse about captivity - one that valorized the knowledge and mediating abilities acquired by captives through cross-cultural experience.Voigt demonstrates how the flexible identities ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807859445
SKU
V9780807859445
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About Lisa Voigt
Lisa Voigt is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Chicago and visiting associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the Ohio State University.
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