Transcript HistBkWk5

The Expansion of Print
History of the Book
Week 5
Colonization and Print in the Americas
Publishing as a form of possession as well as promotion
Viewers and the Viewed
Print and Native Cultures
Religion and Print--missionaries
New World Lands in Print--new geographies, claims
Colonial Fiction, Colonial History--dominant narratives
Check out the native
American with armor, shield,
sword, and spiked club (not
to mention the hair style).
European view of Native American life, including
devils.
Another view of
the New World,
conveniently
unpopulated.
European backlash to
Colonialism
First British
map of
Virginia, an
attempt to
claim
possession.
A later map
of Virginia
A French map of “Nouvelle France”
Jesuit view of native Americans
Marie de L’Incarnation,
founder of the Ursulines
in the New World
French-Huron
interlinear translation
Sequoya, inventor of
Cherokee alphabet
Aztec
Calendar
documented
by Spanish
missionaries
Revolution in Print
Chapter 2. Pornographic pamphlets depict
“depraved” aristocratic sexual practices, positions,
and diseases (along with homosexual practices of the
clergy) as a form of moral degeneration. At the same
time they tried to construct “healthy” patriotic sexual
practices, positions, and legal prostitution policies
which offered “moral” sexual liberation.
Why pamphlets as a vessel for these ideas?