Young, Sandra M. The early modern global south in print : textual form and the production of human difference as knowledge

Folger bibliographic ID: 345276
Folger call number: Z286.T8 Y68 2015
Folger holdings ID: 496111

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

General notes

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 Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction : searching the secrets of nature in the "south" -- Constructing a global south in print -- Picturing new worlds -- Mapping the whole world -- Navigating across oceans -- Making daily notes -- Collecting curiosities -- Reporting on colonial violence -- Editing Africa in the new geographies

Extended title: The early modern global south in print : textual form and the production of human difference as knowledge / Sandra Young

Travelers' writings America Africa Discoveries in geography Cartography in literature North and south Other (Philosophy) Publisher and publishing Kartografie Landeskunde Ethnologie Buchproduktion Amerikabild Afrikabild Südliche Hemisphäre

author: Young, Sandra M. (Sandra Michele)