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Full-Text Articles in Portuguese Literature
Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity, Carmen Nocentelli
Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity, Carmen Nocentelli
Carmen Nocentelli
Winner of the 2014 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Awarded the 2014 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Literature by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Made In India: How Meriton Latroon Became An Englishman, Carmen Nocentelli
Made In India: How Meriton Latroon Became An Englishman, Carmen Nocentelli
Carmen Nocentelli
No abstract provided.
Spice Race: The Island Princess And The Politics Of Transnational Appropriation, Carmen Nocentelli
Spice Race: The Island Princess And The Politics Of Transnational Appropriation, Carmen Nocentelli
Carmen Nocentelli
Recent scholarship has located John Fletcher’s The Island Princess (1621) in the historical context of the early modern “spice race” but has not addressed the extent to which the intra-European tensions staged in the play also enact an international contest for symbolic and cultural resources. Taking as its starting point Fletcher’s acknowledged sources, Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola’s Conquista de las islas Malucas (1609) and Louis Gédoyn de Bellan’s “Histoire memorable de Dias espagnol, et de Quixaire princesse de Moluques” (1615), this essay places The Island Princess in the thick of an appropriative process that moved from Portugal’s periphery to Spain, …
The Erotics Of Mercantile Imperialism: Cross-Cultural Requitedness In The Early Modern Period, Carmen Nocentelli
The Erotics Of Mercantile Imperialism: Cross-Cultural Requitedness In The Early Modern Period, Carmen Nocentelli
Carmen Nocentelli
This article explores the early modern vogue for intermarriage narratives, arguing that cross-cultural unions served as both a crucial instrument of and a privileged metaphor for European imperialism. Adapting medieval precedents to the exigencies of colonial governance and mercantile penetration, plots of interracial requitedness exorcized the specter of European “degeneration” abroad and legitimized the subordination of countries from which enormous profits could be extracted. At the same time, these popular narratives bolstered a regime of domestic heterosexuality that increasingly confined eroticism within the bounds of marriage. With their exotic backdrops and amorous exploits, they celebrated heteropatriarchy while racializing practices and …
Discipline And Love: Linschoten And The Estado Da Índia, Carmen Nocentelli
Discipline And Love: Linschoten And The Estado Da Índia, Carmen Nocentelli
Carmen Nocentelli
No abstract provided.
Spostare Il Centro Del Mondo: La Lotta Per Le Libertà Culturali, Carmen Nocentelli
Spostare Il Centro Del Mondo: La Lotta Per Le Libertà Culturali, Carmen Nocentelli
Carmen Nocentelli
Italian translation of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom (1993)