Kate Fullagar. The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire.
2022; Oxford University Press; Volume: 127; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/ahr/rhac067
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)Canadian Identity and History
ResumoKate Fullagar’s The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire is a history informed by “two resurgent cultural concerns” in the present: “the possibilities of life writing and the moral legacy of empire” (5). This eminently readable book offers a new history of Britain’s “expansionist mission through the tale of three hitherto unconnected biographies” (5): those of Cherokee “warrior-diplomat” Ostenaco (1710s-c. 1780), British “philosopher-artist” Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), and Ra ‘iatean-voyager Mai (1753-c.1780). The two Indigenous men, one from Cherokee lands near Britain’s colonies across the Atlantic and the other from islands in the Pacific new to European encroachment, never met one another. Their lives intersected around two things they shared in common though. Both visited London—Ostenaco as part of a Cherokee diplomatic entourage in 1762 and Mai as a traveler on one of Captain Cook’s voyages from 1774 to 1775. Both had their...
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