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Imagining a Multi-Modal Digital Corpus of Early Modern Maritime Texts

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Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America

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This chapter considers the “oceanic turn,” as Laura Winkiel terms it, that has occurred across disciplines, examining this tendency from the perspective of colonial Latin American textual studies. Articulated at the intersection of corpus computing, scholarly editing, book history, and bibliography, this study proposes a model for a digital resource that could support the production of scholarship writings related to Spain’s overseas empire. This tool would allow users to discover nautical texts, interrogate them as discourse and data, locate them within the history of European publishing, and consider the role they play in the geographical, political, and ideological configuration of today’s world. By facilitating the examination of both the material and rhetorical aspects of maritime writings, this resource would enable us to better appreciate these texts as complex objects that, to date, have generally not received the critical attention they deserve.

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Notes

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    For this example, see McCarl “‘Tosco e imperfecto,’” pp. 151–157.

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    I refer here to the narrative by Antonio Pigafetta. For all texts mentioned here, I give year of first publication.

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    First printed in Purchas, vol. 1, pp. 149–185.

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McCarl, C. (2022). Imagining a Multi-Modal Digital Corpus of Early Modern Maritime Texts. In: Moraña, M. (eds) Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America. Maritime Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08903-9_5

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