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25 mars 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.14153
- isbn: 9782842697679
- eisbn: 9782367814087
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Wolfgang Binder, « ‘Where the remote Bermudas ride...’. », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.14153
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After establishing possible categories of travel writing and referring to medieval and Renaissance examples, I am using Christopher Columbus’s log book and letters to the Catholic Kings of Spain as a paradigm for an analysis of issues concerning European expansion into the Caribbean space. It is shown how from the very beginning ‘new’ territories and their populations were named and classified, and how attempts at subjugation were undertaken. Constructions of Otherness and a discourse of hierarchic differences in the ‘contact zones’ (M.L.Pratt) served as tools to ensure superiority and exploitation. In the second half of the paper two texts are discussed: Lady Nugent’s Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica... (1839) and Matthews Lewis’s Journal of a West India Proprietor Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica (1834). The main focus here is on the respective authors’ travels and their perceptions of enslaved Africans and of ‘The Peculiar Institution’ in Jamaica.