Sylvia Wynter in the Arctic: early modern expeditionary narratives and the construction of "man"
This article locates Martin Frobisher’s voyages to the North American Arctic in 1576, 1577 and 1578 in relation to the thought of Jamaican critic and theorist Sylvia Wynter. For Wynter, the post-Columbian settlement and colonisation of the Americas functioned as both a crucible and proving ground fo...
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ftuglasgow:oai:eprints.gla.ac.uk:306677 2023-12-31T10:02:00+01:00 Sylvia Wynter in the Arctic: early modern expeditionary narratives and the construction of "man" Wedderburn, Alister 2023-10-18 text https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/306677/ https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/306677/2/306677.pdf en eng Taylor & Francis https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/306677/2/306677.pdf Wedderburn, A. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/54670.html> (2023) Sylvia Wynter in the Arctic: early modern expeditionary narratives and the construction of "man". Cambridge Review of International Affairs <https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/Cambridge_Review_of_International_Affairs.html>, (doi:10.1080/09557571.2023.2273371 <https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2023.2273371>) (Early Online Publication) cc_by_nc_nd_4 Articles PeerReviewed 2023 ftuglasgow https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2023.2273371 2023-12-07T23:09:33Z This article locates Martin Frobisher’s voyages to the North American Arctic in 1576, 1577 and 1578 in relation to the thought of Jamaican critic and theorist Sylvia Wynter. For Wynter, the post-Columbian settlement and colonisation of the Americas functioned as both a crucible and proving ground for a new, racialised understanding of the human, which she calls ‘Man’. Focusing on expeditionary narratives written by sailors on Frobisher’s three voyages to Baffin Island, the article treats these narratives as examples of travel writing, a genre occupying the mobile, labile threshold between history and fiction which has often mediated the comprehension of difference, hierarchy and (international) order. Focusing on these texts’ treatments of race and otherness, the article argues that the Arctic was a key site where the terms of relationality governing English interaction with the so-called ‘New World’ and its people were hesitatingly, clumsily and often violently worked out. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Baffin Island Baffin University of Glasgow: Enlighten - Publications Cambridge Review of International Affairs 1 17 |
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This article locates Martin Frobisher’s voyages to the North American Arctic in 1576, 1577 and 1578 in relation to the thought of Jamaican critic and theorist Sylvia Wynter. For Wynter, the post-Columbian settlement and colonisation of the Americas functioned as both a crucible and proving ground for a new, racialised understanding of the human, which she calls ‘Man’. Focusing on expeditionary narratives written by sailors on Frobisher’s three voyages to Baffin Island, the article treats these narratives as examples of travel writing, a genre occupying the mobile, labile threshold between history and fiction which has often mediated the comprehension of difference, hierarchy and (international) order. Focusing on these texts’ treatments of race and otherness, the article argues that the Arctic was a key site where the terms of relationality governing English interaction with the so-called ‘New World’ and its people were hesitatingly, clumsily and often violently worked out. |
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https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/306677/2/306677.pdf Wedderburn, A. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/54670.html> (2023) Sylvia Wynter in the Arctic: early modern expeditionary narratives and the construction of "man". Cambridge Review of International Affairs <https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/Cambridge_Review_of_International_Affairs.html>, (doi:10.1080/09557571.2023.2273371 <https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2023.2273371>) (Early Online Publication) |
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