Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean From Fruits to Rastafar
This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture. Through thorough examination of Caribbean phytonyms in lexicography, colonization, history, songs a
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Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean
Rosanna Masiola • Renato Tomei
Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean From Fruits to Rastafarians
Rosanna Masiola University for Foreigners Perugia, Italy
Renato Tomei University for Foreigners Perugia, Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-40936-8 ISBN 978-3-319-40937-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40937-5
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…the whole Plant together shows like a Father in the middle, and a dozen Children round him… When the fruit is grown to a ripeness, you shall perceive it by the smell, which is far beyond the smell of the choicest fruits of Europe, as the taste is beyond theirs… the rind, which is so beautiful, as it grieves us to rob the fruit of such and ornament, nor would we do it, but to enjoy the precious substance it contains; like a Thief, that breaks into a beautiful Cabinet, which we should forbear to do, but for the treasure he expects to find within. (Richard Ligon, on the pineapple, 1657) There are streets of herbalists where all the medicinal herbs and roots found in the land are sold. There are shops like apothecaries’, where they sell readymade medicines… (Hernàn Cortéz, on Tenochtitlàn, 1521, tr. A. Pagden)
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PREFACE
Stemming from colonial and postcolonial studies, descriptions and translations of the New World have served as a channel for dissemination of geographic knowledge, introduction of botany as a new science, exploitation of the plantation compound, and the global dissemination of Caribbean music and Rastafarian culture. This book’s first and second chapters feature a rich corpus of geographical and botanical descriptions and translation. The common thread is the occurrence of ‘pr
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