Indography

Jonathan Gil Harris is a professor of English at George Washington University.

'In 1614, Samuel Purchas noted that India was a term that had begun to be used to describe 'all farre-distant Countries.' This volume is a careful, thought-provoking and wide-ranging analysis of the meaning, implications and consequences of that usage. It uncovers the astonishing diversity of peoples and locations signified by the term in early modern English writings. Even more important, it tracks the connections between the different 'Indians' forged through material as well as imaginative channels. 'India' and 'Indians' emerge as important points of entry into the early histories and discourses of globalization. An important and illuminating book.' - Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania "The geographic miscalculation that persuaded Columbus to identify the New World as part of 'India' is at once so gross and so familiar that its imaginative consequences have never seemed to deserve serious consideration. The brilliant tessellation of essays that make up Indography show how mistaken that neglect has been. By opening a fascinating variety of perspectives on the many 'Indias' of the Renaissance imaginary, Gil Harris and his contributors promise to transform our understanding of early modern ethnography and its relation to the discourses of trade and empire." - Michael Neill, emeritus professor of English, University of Auckland

• Introduction: Forms of Indography; J.G.Harris  PART I: INDOLOGY: DISCOVERY, ETHNOGRAPHY, PATHOLOGY How To Make an Indian: Religion, Trade, and Translation in the Legends of Mõnçaide and Gaspar da Gama; B.Malieckal  Looking for Loss, Anticipating Absence: Imagining Indians in the Archives and Depictions of Roanoke's Lost Colony; G.Caison  From First Encounter to 'Fiery Oven': The Effacement of the New England Indian in Mourt's Relation and Histories of the Pequot War; T.Cartelli  Trafficking in Tangomóckomindge: Ethnographic Materials in Harriot's A Briefe and True Report; K.Boettcher  Translation and Identity in the Dialogues in the English and Malaiane Languages; M.Walter  Playing Indian: John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Dialogue about a Chain of Pearl; K.Robertson  Tobacco, Union, and The Indianized English; C.Rustici  Sick Ethnography: Recording the Indian and the Ill English Body; J.G.Harris  PART II: INDOPOESIS: POETRY, DRAMA, ROMANCE Spenser's 'Men of Inde': Mythologizing the Indian through the Genealogy of Faeries; M.Hollings  From Lunacy to Faith: Orlando's Own Private India in Robert Greene's Orlando Furioso; J.W.Stone  'Enter Orlando with a scarf before his face': Indians, Moors, and the Properties of Racial Transformation in Robert Greene's The Historie of Orlando Furioso; G.Hollis  'Does this become you, Princess?': East Indian Ethopoetics in John Fletcher's The Island Princess; J.Tran  Playing an Indian Queen: Neoplatonism, Ethnography, and The Temple of Love; A.Sen  Made in India: How Meriton Latroon Became an Englishman; C.Nocentelli  'A Well-Born Race': Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia and the Place of Proximity; S.Eaton  Afterword: Naming and Un-naming 'all the Indies': How India Became Hindustan; J.G.Singh