Date de publication:
03 Février 2011
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Written Culture in a Colonial Context. Africa and the Americas 1500-1900
Sous la direction de Adrien Delmas et Nigel Penn
Auteurs : Jean-Loic Le Quellec, Patrick Johansson, André Menard, Hervé Pennec, Adrien Delmas, Fabian Javier Luduena Romandidi, David J. Culpin, Nigel Penn, Peter Merrington, Julio Esteban Vezub, Lieze Kriel, Mastin Prinsloo, Jorge Pavez Ojeda, Gerald Groenwald, José Emilio Burucua
Cape Town, South Africa, Ifas/UCT Press, 364 p., 2011
ISBN : 978-1-91989-526-0
L'ouvrage « Written Culture in a Colonial Context, Africa and the Americas 1500-1900 », coordonné par Adrien Delmas et Nigel Penn est une publication des contributions présentées lors d'un colloque sur les rapports entre culture écrite et expansion européenne à l'Epoque Moderne organisé à l'Université du Cap en décembre 2008 en partenariat avec l'IFAS. Le lancement du livre aura lieu le 9 février 2011 à Cape Town.
Ships, soldiers, missionaries and settlers drove the process of European expansion from the 16th to the 19th centuries. In doing so, they set in motion the circulation of images, manuscripts and books between different continents. The Portuguese Estado da India, the Spanish Carrera de Indias, the Dutch, English and French East-Indian Companies, as well as the Society of Jesus, all imaginatively fixed and inscribed the details of their travels and their discourses in letters, logs, diaries and histories. They also regulated the circulation of this material through the construction of archives, censorship, control of publications and secrecy. In addition, they introduced alphabetic writing into societies without alphabets, which was a major factor in changing the very function and meaning of written culture.
There is very little in modern literature on the history of written culture which describes specific practices related to writing that were anchored in the colonial context. This book explores the extent to which the types of written information that resulted during colonial expansion shaped the numerous and complex processes of cultural exchange from the 16th century onwards. Focusing on writing in colonial Africa and the Americas, it ranges from rock art and proto-writing in Africa to the alphabetisation of Mexican scribes (tlahcuilos), from the missionary writing of Ethiopian Jesuits in the 17th century to travel writing and other forms of popular literature in the 19th century and official documents of various kinds.
'... this collection makes important contributions by re-aligning a number of fields. Put briefly, it makes colonial history more textual; postcolonial studies more material; book history more transnational.' – Isabel Hofmeyer, Professor of African Literature, Research Associate: Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwaterstrand, South Africa
Adrien Delmas holds a PhD in History (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), and teaches history at Sciences-Po, Paris. He has published several essay on the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and travel writing in early modern Europe.
Professor Nigel Penn is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. His research interests are the norther frontier of the Cape in the 18th century, Khoisan history and early Dutch and British colonial history. He is also the author of Rogues, Rebels and Runaways (1999), Cape Town: David Philip and The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's Northern Frontier in the 18th Century (2006), Cape Town: Double Storey.
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