Written culture in a colonial context : Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 / / edited by Adrien Delmas, Nigel Penn.

• Superior document: African history ; v. 2
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Delmas, Adrien.; Penn, Nigel.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: xxxii, 379 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Papers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008.; Previously published: UCT Press, 2011.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Writing at Sea / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Introduction: the written word and the world / Adrien Delmas -- Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: the Libyco-Berber example / Jean-Loic Le Quellec -- From pictures to letters: the early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo's alphabetisation process during the 16th century / Patrick Johansson -- Edmond R. Smith's writing lesson: archive and representation in 19th century Araucania / Andre Menard -- Missionary knowledge in context: geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuries / Herve Pennec -- From travelling to history: an outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th century / Adrien Delmas -- Towards an archaeology of globalisation: readings and writings of Tommaso Campanella on a theological-political empire between the Old and the New worlds (16th-17th centuries) / Fabian Javier Luduena Romandini -- Charlevoix and the American savage: the 18th-century traveller as moralist / David J. Culpin -- Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description' / Nigel Penn -- Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910 / Peter Merrington -- Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century / Julio Esteban Vezub -- To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal / Lize Kriel -- Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics / Mastin Prinsloo -- The 'painting' of Black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of Jose Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812) / Jorge Pavez Ojeda -- On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century / Gerald Groenewald -- Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture / Jose Emilio Burucua.