Writing about Discovery in the Early Modern East Indies

Su Fang Ng (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-04586-5 (ISBN)

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Portuguese explorations opened the sea-route to Asia, bringing armed trading to the Indian Ocean. This Element examines the impact of the 1511 Portuguese conquest of the port-kingdom of Melaka on early travel literature. Putting into dialogue accounts from Portuguese, mestiço, and Malay perspectives, this study re-examines early modern 'discovery' as a cross-cultural trope. Trade and travel were intertwined while structured by religion. Rather than newness or wonder, Portuguese representations focus on recovering what is known and grafting Asian knowledges-including local histories-onto European epistemologies. Framing Portuguese rule as a continuation of the sultanate, they re-spatialize Melaka into a European city. However, this model is complicated by a second one of accidental discovery facilitated by native agents. For Malay texts too, travel traverses known routes and spaces. Malay travelers insert themselves into foreign spaces by forging new kinship alliances, even as indigenous networks were increasingly disrupted by European incursions.

1. Introduction: Indian Ocean Travel Networks in Early Modernity; 2. Tomé Pires and the Way to Melaka; 3. Erédia's Southern Imagination; 4. Malay Travel in the Indian Ocean; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Travel Writing
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	140 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-009-04586-5 / 1009045865
ISBN-13	978-1-009-04586-5 / 9781009045865
Zustand	Neuware