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- Title
'Vagabundu e vagamundu': The Classic Modern Ambition of Geography Anatomized and Grammaticalized.
- Authors
Irimia, Mihaela
- Abstract
Embedded in the modernity discourse 'with a difference', the nature - nurture binomial allows of a sui generis conjugation with the colonial discovery discourse in Classic Modernity. While Early Modernity pushed the boundaries of the (Old) World westwards, the second phase of Euro-Atlantic empowerment completed the colonial narrative with its Eastern half, thus resulting in 'geography anatomized and grammaticalized' according to the alphabet of power. Travel narratives and historical accounts referring to the New World took note of nature 'over there' in at times blatant contrast with the hic et nunc of accredited notions. People, animals, plants by the side of rocks, stones, waters and the like were put to the test of mother nature's rules. Likewise, man-made values, practices and objects - that other nature we currently call culture - were 'set right'! This paper is based on two case studies - Thomas Salmon's Modern History or, the Present State of All Nations (1739) and Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri's Giro del Mondo (1700) - as cultural vagabondage/vagamondage illustrating the current mentality in the travel literature of the day. It means to evince forms of (m)othering cultural institutions and identitary chronotopes in context.
- Subjects
NATURE &; nurture; NATURE &; civilization; SALMON, Thomas; GIRO del Mondo (Book); TRAVEL guidebooks; VAGRANCY in literature; NARRATIVES; MODERN history
- Publication
University of Bucharest Review: Literary & Cultural Studies Series, 2012, Vol 2, Issue 2, p29
- ISSN
2069-8658
- Publication type
Article