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by Gitanjali Shahani; Brinda Charry (Editor)

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With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection of essays takes the messenger figure as a focal point for the discussion of transnational exchange and intercourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It sees the emissary as embodying the processes of representation and communication within the world of the text, itself an 'emissary' that strives to communicate and re-present certain perceptions of the 'real.' Drawing attention to the limits and licenses of communication, the emissary is a reminder of the alien quality of foreign language and the symbolic power of performative gestures and rituals. Contributions to this collection examine different kinds of cross-cultural activities (e.g. diplomacy, trade, translation, espionage, missionary endeavors) in different world areas (e.g. Asia, the Mediterranean, the Levant, the New World) via different critical methods and approaches. They take up the literary and cultural productions and representations of ambassadors, factors, traders, translators, spies, middlemen, merchants, missionaries, and other agents, who served as complex conduits for the global transport of goods, religious ideologies, and socio-cultural practices throughout the early modern period. Authors in the collection investigate the multiple ways in which the emissary became enmeshed in emerging discourses of racial, religious, gender, and class differences. They consider how the emissary's role might have contributed to an idealized progressive vision of a borderless world or, conversely, permeated and dissolved borders and boundaries between peoples only to further specific group interests.

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  • Title Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Mediation, Transmission, Traffic, 1550 1700
  • Author Gitanjali Shahani; Brinda Charry (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2016-11-15
  • ISBN 9781138265561 / 113826556X
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.59 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.50 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 16th Century
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

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Brinda Charry is Assistant Professor of English at Keene State College, USA. Gitanjali Shahani is Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University, USA.

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