Narrating Colonial Violence and Representing New-World Difference: The Possibilities of Form in Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report
| dc.contributor.author | Young, Sandra | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-28T08:17:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-06-28T08:17:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-11T10:28:04Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In tracing the stories—or ‘‘histories,’’ as sixteenth-century exploration narratives were called—with which expansionist Europe came to know its colonial Other, we see outlines of the habits of thought and the systems of identification with which imperialist Europe constructed its world.1 Thomas Harriot’s A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia has been read as a key text in the development not only of knowledge specifically of America, but of sixteenth-century natural history and early scientific methodology more generally. The Report itself does not claim to be compendious and is driven by Harriot’s openly acknowledged agenda of promoting support for the English colonization of America. But the interesting feature about the Harriot text, the thing that is given scant critical attention, is that it is really two distinct texts, published only two years apart but each strikingly different in its treatment of the alarming effects of the colonial encounter. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2010.511777 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Young, S. (2010). Narrating Colonial Violence and Representing New-World Difference: The Possibilities of Form in Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report. <i>Safundi : journal of South African and American studies</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24653 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Young, Sandra "Narrating Colonial Violence and Representing New-World Difference: The Possibilities of Form in Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report." <i>Safundi : journal of South African and American studies</i> (2010) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24653 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Young, S. (2010). Narrating Colonial Violence and Representing New-World Difference: The Possibilities of Form in Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Young, Sandra AB - In tracing the stories—or ‘‘histories,’’ as sixteenth-century exploration narratives were called—with which expansionist Europe came to know its colonial Other, we see outlines of the habits of thought and the systems of identification with which imperialist Europe constructed its world.1 Thomas Harriot’s A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia has been read as a key text in the development not only of knowledge specifically of America, but of sixteenth-century natural history and early scientific methodology more generally. The Report itself does not claim to be compendious and is driven by Harriot’s openly acknowledged agenda of promoting support for the English colonization of America. But the interesting feature about the Harriot text, the thing that is given scant critical attention, is that it is really two distinct texts, published only two years apart but each strikingly different in its treatment of the alarming effects of the colonial encounter. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Safundi : journal of South African and American studies LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Narrating Colonial Violence and Representing New-World Difference: The Possibilities of Form in Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report TI - Narrating Colonial Violence and Representing New-World Difference: The Possibilities of Form in Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24653 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24653 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Young S. Narrating Colonial Violence and Representing New-World Difference: The Possibilities of Form in Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report. Safundi : journal of South African and American studies. 2010; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24653. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of English Language and Literature | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Safundi : journal of South African and American studies | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsaf20 | |
| dc.title | Narrating Colonial Violence and Representing New-World Difference: The Possibilities of Form in Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
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