Empires of Love - Carmen Nocentelli

Empires of Love

Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2013
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-4483-0 (ISBN)
67,30 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on a wide range of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sources, Empires of Love shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities.
Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and perversion, she demonstrates, it was also a space where colonial authorities actively encouraged the formation of interracial households, even through the forcible conscription of native brides. In her comparative analysis of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish texts, Nocentelli shows how sexual behaviors and erotic desires quickly came to define the limits within which Europeans represented not only Asia but also themselves.

Drawing on a wide range of European sources on polygamy, practices of male genital modification, and the allegedly excessive libido of native women, Empires of Love emphasizes the overlapping and mutually transformative construction of race and sexuality during Europe's early overseas expansion, arguing that the encounter with Asia contributed to the development of Western racial discourse while also shaping European ideals of marriage, erotic reciprocity, and monogamous affection.

Carmen Nocentelli is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Mexico.

Acknowledgments

Note on Quotations and Translations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Perverse Implantations

Chapter 2. The Erotic Politics of Os Lusíadas

Chapter 3. Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia

Chapter 4. Polygamy and the Arts of Reduction

Chapter 5. The Ideology of Interracial Romance

Chapter 6. English Whiteness and the End of Romance

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo 1 illus.
Verlagsort Pennsylvania
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8122-4483-4 / 0812244834
ISBN-13 978-0-8122-4483-0 / 9780812244830
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