The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World - Couverture souple

Duffy, Eve M. M.

 
9781421403465: The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1421403463 ISBN 13 : 9781421403465
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world.

Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf carefully reconstruct Staden’s life as a German soldier, his two expeditions to the Americas, and his subsequent shipwreck, captivity, brush with cannibalism, escape, and return. The authors explore how these events and experiences were recreated in the text and images of the True History. Focusing on Staden’s multiple roles as a go-between, Duffy and Metcalf address many of the issues that emerge when cultures come into contact and conflict.

An artful and accessible interpretation, The Return of Hans Staden takes a text best known for its sensational tale of cannibalism and shows how it can be reinterpreted as a window into the precariousness of lives on both sides of early modern encounters, when such issues as truth and lying, violence, religious belief, and cultural difference were key to the formation of the Atlantic world.

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À propos des auteurs

Eve M. Duffy is the director of the Program in the Humanities and Human Values at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alida C. Metcalf is the Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History at Rice University. A codeveloper of imagineRio, the digital atlas of Rio de Janeiro, she is the author of Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 and Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1421403463
ISBN 13 
9781421403465
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9781421403458: The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1421403455 ISBN 13 :  9781421403458
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
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