Envisioning the Peoples of ‘New’ Worlds: Early Modern Woodcut Images and the Inscription of Human Difference
2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 57; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00138398.2014.916904
ISSN1943-8117
Autores Tópico(s)History, Culture, and Diplomacy
ResumoAbstractThe woodcut images that were deployed within early geographies and on maps helped to establish the racialized imaginary within which the people of the south become known. One of the first sets of images of the peoples of Africa and the ‘new’ world was the series of woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair, published initially as an independent wall frieze (1508). Their reappearance within varied textual forms over the next century provides an intriguing case study of the impact of textual structure and context on imperialist intelligibility. Arranged within a single broadsheet, De Novo Mondo, the Burgkmair images helped to fuel a partisan ‘new world’ discourse and establish equivalences between regions of the global south, many of them long known to Europeans.Keywords: new world discoursewoodcut imagestextual structureJan van DoesborchHans BurgkmairBalthasar Springer
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