Author : Josiah Blackmore
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816638505
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Manifest Perdition by : Josiah Blackmore
Download or read book Manifest Perdition written by Josiah Blackmore and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipwreck, death, and survival; terror, hunger, and salvation -- these are the experiences of those onboard merchant Portuguese ships in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this book we see how the dramatic, compelling, and often gory accounts of shipwreck, collected in Historia Tragico-Maritima (1735-36), or The Tragic History of the Sea, challenge state-sponsored versions of events. Manifest Perdition reveals the important place of these stories in literary history and shows -- for the first time -- how they serve as both a product of and a resistance to Iberian expansion and colonialism. Book jacket.