Matches in UGent Biblio for { ?s ?p In her article Writing to Comprehend Dutch Brazil: The Role of Intertextuality in Joannes de Laet’s “Laerlyck Verhael” on Dutch Brazil Britt Dams (Ghent University) connects the Low Countries, Africa and South America in the context of the seventeenth-century Dutch colony in Pernambuco. She focuses on the geographer Johannes De Laet (1581-1649), one of the directors of the West India Company, and his thirteen volumes Iaerlyck Verhael (Annual Story) about the history of the WIC from 1623 to 1636, i.e. the year in which Johan Maurits van NassauSiegen took off for Brazil. Dams analyzes a number of selected passages where de Laet described the tropical reality of (what would become) Dutch Brazil, more specifically the fauna, the flora, the local people and the slaves. According to Dams, these descriptions both reveal and construct the exotic reality encountered by the Dutch colonizers in Brazil. By showing how descriptive passages became on their turn textual loci of knowledge-transfer, she demonstrates that de Laet not only displayed the exotic reality but rather constructed and fashioned it.. }
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- aggregation abstract "In her article Writing to Comprehend Dutch Brazil: The Role of Intertextuality in Joannes de Laet’s “Laerlyck Verhael” on Dutch Brazil Britt Dams (Ghent University) connects the Low Countries, Africa and South America in the context of the seventeenth-century Dutch colony in Pernambuco. She focuses on the geographer Johannes De Laet (1581-1649), one of the directors of the West India Company, and his thirteen volumes Iaerlyck Verhael (Annual Story) about the history of the WIC from 1623 to 1636, i.e. the year in which Johan Maurits van NassauSiegen took off for Brazil. Dams analyzes a number of selected passages where de Laet described the tropical reality of (what would become) Dutch Brazil, more specifically the fauna, the flora, the local people and the slaves. According to Dams, these descriptions both reveal and construct the exotic reality encountered by the Dutch colonizers in Brazil. By showing how descriptive passages became on their turn textual loci of knowledge-transfer, she demonstrates that de Laet not only displayed the exotic reality but rather constructed and fashioned it.".