“\u3ci\u3ePlain Broad Narratives of Substantial Facts”: Credibility, Narrative, and Hakluyt’s\u3c/i\u3e Principall Navigations

  • Schleck, Julia
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Publication date
January 2006
Publisher
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Language
English

Abstract

This article compares voyage narratives printed in Richard Hakluyt’s 1589 Principall Navigations to contemporaneous travel histories in an effort to contextualize the epistemological status of each group of texts and debunk the former’s reputation for greater factuality. It critiques the use commonly made of Hakluyt’s narratives in literary studies, arguing that the privileging of these texts over other sources results in postcolonial studies that ironically valorize a type of writing which promoted the colonial mindset these studies seek to expose

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