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Module Content and Indicative Topics鈥�听

This module will introduce you to the critical study of global cross-cultural encounters in the early modern period. Our main materials will be Portuguese travel narratives, geographical and ethnographic texts produced between c.1450 and 1650. We will read a selection of translated primary texts narrating travels, encounters and confrontations with extra-European cultures, accompanied by a selection of secondary literature highlighting the quandaries of the genre鈥檚 intertwinements with imperial expansion and the making of colonial societies in Brazil, Africa and Asia. To highlight the unique characteristics of Portuguese travel writing, the course covers the entire globe, but some emphasis will be placed on early colonial Brazil, West and South Africa, and the so-called East Indies. We shall examine how travel accounts can function as historical sources and promote a better understanding of the world that produced them. The secondary readings (on Orientalism, postcolonialism, indigenous studies, Renaissance worldmaking) will help us reflect on questions of literary invention, appropriation and stereotyping in the representation of other cultures. This, too, will shine a critical light on the 鈥淕lobal Renaissance鈥� and, at the same time, make us think about the world it produced: our own.鈥�听

• What is travel literature, why study it, and how?鈥�听

• Travel, empire, and the problem of Otherness: Portugal鈥檚 African beginnings鈥�听

• The Naked Truth? First Encounters and Otherness in Brazil鈥�鈥�听

• Dancing with Cannibals: man-eaters and noble savages in Brazil鈥�鈥�听

• Stormy seas and deadly shores: the melancholy traveller and other critics of Empire鈥�听

• Diplomacy, errancy and the problem of genre: re-reading Cam玫es鈥�听

• Selected topics on travels in India, China and Japan鈥�鈥�听

• Themes of Science History鈥�鈥�听

This module is taught in English and is open to students not specialising in literature. Students of History may find it particularly interesting as a critical introduction to the making of the early modern world. An intermediate level of Portuguese will give you direct access to many original texts written in Portuguese, but all core materials 鈥� both primary and secondary 鈥� are available in English.鈥�听

Teaching Delivery鈥�听

This course consists of 10 lectures of 2 hrs each, with group work and discussions in the second part of each session. Students are expected to read some passages of travel literature (usually around 20-30 pages) in advance for each class. Students will also be given critical literature to go through for each class.鈥�听

By the end of the module, you should be able to:鈥�听

1. Identify key works, authors, styles and currents of Portuguese travel literature鈥�听

2. Contextualise works of travel literature historically鈥�听

3. Outline the History of Portugal expansion and global travels鈥�听

4. Analyse key formal aspects of travel literature relating to truthfulness, credibility, readability, othering鈥�听

5. Perform critical close readings of texts regarding matters of Empire, encounter, race, violence, colonial science, cartography鈥�听

6. Conduct intermediate level research into literary texts and their historical contexts鈥�听

Recommended Reading鈥�听

In preparation for the module, we advise reading the following core texts. These can be found in the 新香港六合彩开奖结果Library:鈥�听

• Mary B. Campbell, 鈥淚ntroduction鈥�, in The witness and the other world: exotic European travel writing, 4001600, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1991鈥�听

• Binyavanga Wainaina, 鈥淗ow to write about Africa鈥�, in Granta 92: the view from Africa . London, Granta, 2005 (available online at )鈥�听

• Edward Said, chapter 1 of Orientalism, London, Kegan & Paul, 1978 or any other edition.鈥�听

• Anthony Disney, History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, vol. 2 (鈥淭he Portuguese Empire鈥�), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009.鈥�听

All primary texts will be available in English translation on Moodle.鈥�听