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- catalog abstract ""This book investigates how the early-modern English came to envision "Hottentots" as humanity's most base and beastly people." "The descriptions of Africa's southern-most people that appear in travel narratives and collections, geography books, and other textbooks of learning written from the first contact between English sailors and the Cape Khoikhoi in 1591 until the establishment of the British Cape Colony in the 1820s only tell part of the story about the invention and construction of "Hottentots." No other indigenous society was described so negatively or appropriated for such extensive use in domestic discourses. Indeed, the countless number of literal and figurative "Hottentot" references that appear in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century journals, letters, poetry, novels, and drama, as well as in scientific, imperialist, political, and abolitionist writings demonstrate how the very idea of them figures in crucial ways in the early modern consciousness as well as in some of the period's most critical debates, especially those concerning race, nationalism, and gender." "Tracing all the pre-colonial representations of "Hottentots" and "Hottentotism" operative in early-modern England allows us to see the birth and the development of a prejudice that became central to the nation. In their constructions of "Hottentots" the English found a way to vent their own fear, anger, and conflict about themselves and their society, particularly as they were transforming and redefining their nation as imperial Great Britain. The very invention of the "Hottentots" shows that the English needed to envision a worst people in order to imagine themselves as the world's most advanced people."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12103885.
- catalog coverage "Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) Discovery and exploration English.".
- catalog coverage "Eastern Cape (South Africa) Description and travel.".
- catalog created "c2001".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001".
- catalog description ""This book investigates how the early-modern English came to envision "Hottentots" as humanity's most base and beastly people." "The descriptions of Africa's southern-most people that appear in travel narratives and collections, geography books, and other textbooks of learning written from the first contact between English sailors and the Cape Khoikhoi in 1591 until the establishment of the British Cape Colony in the 1820s only tell part of the story about the invention and construction of "Hottentots." No other indigenous society was described so negatively or appropriated for such extensive use in domestic discourses. Indeed, the countless number of literal and figurative "Hottentot" references that appear in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century journals, letters, poetry, novels, and drama, as well as in scientific, imperialist, political, and abolitionist writings demonstrate how the very idea of them figures in crucial ways in the early modern consciousness as well as in some of the period's most critical debates, especially those concerning race, nationalism, and gender." "Tracing all the pre-colonial representations of "Hottentots" and "Hottentotism" operative in early-modern England allows us to see the birth and the development of a prejudice that became central to the nation. In their constructions of "Hottentots" the English found a way to vent their own fear, anger, and conflict about themselves and their society, particularly as they were transforming and redefining their nation as imperial Great Britain. The very invention of the "Hottentots" shows that the English needed to envision a worst people in order to imagine themselves as the world's most advanced people."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. First Contact -- 2. Spreading the Word -- 3. The Story of Cory -- 4. "Hottentots" at Home and Abroad -- 5. Challenging the Constructions -- 6. An Information Age -- 7. "The Most Wretched of the Human Race" -- Conclusion: Remembering "Hottentots"".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-283) and index.".
- catalog extent "289 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0874137381 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press,".
- catalog spatial "Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) Discovery and exploration English.".
- catalog spatial "Eastern Cape (South Africa) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "942.05 21".
- catalog subject "DT1058.K56 M47 2001".
- catalog subject "Khoikhoi (African people) Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Khoikhoi (African people) Social life and customs 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Khoikhoi (African people) Social life and customs 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Racism England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Racism England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Travelers' writings, English.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. First Contact -- 2. Spreading the Word -- 3. The Story of Cory -- 4. "Hottentots" at Home and Abroad -- 5. Challenging the Constructions -- 6. An Information Age -- 7. "The Most Wretched of the Human Race" -- Conclusion: Remembering "Hottentots"".
- catalog title "Envisioning the worst : representations of "Hottentots" in early-modern England / Linda E. Merians.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".