The Return of Hans Staden

The Return of Hans Staden
Author :
Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 342
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781421404219
ISBN-13 : 1421404214
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Return of Hans Staden by : Eve M. Duffy

Download or read book The Return of Hans Staden written by Eve M. Duffy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world. Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf carefully reconstruct Staden’s life as a German soldier, his two expeditions to the Americas, and his subsequent shipwreck, captivity, brush with cannibalism, escape, and return. The authors explore how these events and experiences were recreated in the text and images of the True History. Focusing on Staden’s multiple roles as a go-between, Duffy and Metcalf address many of the issues that emerge when cultures come into contact and conflict. An artful and accessible interpretation, The Return of Hans Staden takes a text best known for its sensational tale of cannibalism and shows how it can be reinterpreted as a window into the precariousness of lives on both sides of early modern encounters, when such issues as truth and lying, violence, religious belief, and cultural difference were key to the formation of the Atlantic world.


The Return of Hans Staden Related Books

The Return of Hans Staden
Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: Eve M. Duffy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-04 - Publisher: JHU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the G
Hans Staden's True History
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Hans Staden
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-16 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured by the Tupinam
Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Alida C. Metcalf
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Doña Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and Europea
The Return of Hans Staden
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: Eve M. Duffy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-04 - Publisher: JHU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the G
Vampire Nation
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Toma Longinović
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-12 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vam