Indography Writing the Indian in Early Modern England [Hardcover]

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to consider the proximities and distances between various early modern discourses of the Indian. Through new analysis of English travel writing, medical treatises, literature, and drama, contributors seek not just to recover unexpected counter-histories but to put pressure on the ways in which we understand race, foreign bodies, and identity in a globalizing age that has still not shed deeply ingrained imperialist habits of marking difference.Introduction: Forms of Indography; J.G.Harris  PART I: INDOLOGY: DISCOVERY, ETHNOGRAPHY, PATHOLOGY How To Make an Indian: Religion, Trade, and Translation in the Legends of M??n??aide and Gaspar da Gama; B.Malieckal  Looking for Loss, Anticipating Absence: Imagining Indians in the Archives and Depictions of Roanoke's Lost Colony; G.Caison  From First Encounter to 'Fiery Oven': The Effacement of the New England Indian in Mourt's Relation and Histories of the Pequot War; T.Cartelli  Trafficking in Tangom??ckomindge: Ethnographic Materials in Harriot's A Briefe and True Report; K.Boettcher  Translation and Identity in the Dialogues in the English and Malaiane Languages; M.Walter  Playing Indian: John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Dialogue about a Chain of Pearl; K.Robertson  Tobacco, Union, and The Indianized English; C.Rustici  Sick Ethnography: Recording the Indian and the Ill English Body; J.G.Harris  PART II: INDOPOESIS: POETRY, DRAMA, ROMANCE Spenser's 'Men of Inde': Mythologizing the Indian through the Genealogy of Faeries; M.Hollings  From Lunacy to Faith: Orlando's Own Private India in Robert Greene's Orlando Furiosol#6