Schülting Sabine - Early modern encounters with the Islamic East: performing cultures

EARLY MODERN ENCOUNTERS
WITH THE ISLAMIC EAST

An exploration of early modern encounters between Christian Europe and the (Islamic) East from the perspective of performance studies and performativity theories, this collection focuses on the ways in which these cultural contacts were acted out on the real and metaphorical stages of theatre, literature, music, diplomacy and travel. the volume responds to the theatricalization of early modern politics, to contemporary anxieties about the tension between religious performance and belief, to the circulation of material objects in intercultural relations, and the eminent role of theatre and drama for the (re)imagination and negotiation of cultural difference. Contributors examine early modern encounters with and in the East using an innovative combination of literary and cultural theories. they stress the contingent nature of these contacts and demonstrate that they can be read as moments of potentiality in which the future of political and economic relations as well as the players cultural, religious and gender identities are at stake.

Transculturalisms, 14001700

Series Editors: Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami
Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College
Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University

This series will present studies of the early modern contacts and exchanges among the states, polities and entrepreneurial organizations of Europe; Asia, including the Levant and East India/Indies; Africa; and the Americas. Books will investigate travelers, merchants and cultural inventors, including explorers, mapmakers, artists and writers, as they operated in political, mercantile, sexual and linguistic economies. We encourage authors to reflect on their own methodologies in relation to issues and theories relevant to the study of transculturism/translation and transnationalism. We are particularly interested in work on and from the perspective of the Asians, Africans, and Americans involved in these interactions, and on such topics as:

Material exchanges, including textiles, paper and printing, and technologies of knowledge

Movements of bodies: embassies, voyagers, piracy, enslavement

Travel writing: its purposes, practices, forms and effects on writing in other genres

Belief systems: religions, philosophies, sciences

Translations: verbal, artistic, philosophical

Forms of transnational violence and its representations.

Also in this series:

Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 16401690
Edited by Philip Major with a foreword by Lisa Jardine

The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 14501750
Visual Imagery before Orientalism
Edited by James G. Harper

Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination
A Scattered Nation
Eva Johanna Holmberg

Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World
Edited by Dana Leibsohn and Jeanette Favrot Peterson

Performing Cultures

Edited by

SABINE SCHLTING

Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany

SABINE LUCIA MLLER

Georg Eckert Institut Braunschweig, Germany

AND RALF HERTEL

University of Hamburg, Germany

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Early modern encounters with the Islamic East: performing cultures. Transculturalisms, 14001700)

1. British Turkey History 16th century. 2. British Turkey History 17th century. 3. British Turkey History 18th century. 4. Great Britain Relations Turkey. 5. Turkey Relations Great Britain. 6. Islamic civilization in literature. 7. Orientalism in literature. 8. English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 15001600 History and criticism. 9. English drama 17th century History and criticism.

I. Series II. Schlting, Sabine. III. Mller, Sabine Lucia. IV. Hertel, Ralf, 1973303.482410561-dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Early modern encounters with the Islamic East-performing cultures / edited by Sabine Schlting, Sabine Lucia Mller and Ralf Hertel.

p. cm. (Transculturalisms, 14001700)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-3850-2 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-3155-7842-2 (ebook)

1. TheaterEuropeHistory. 2. Performing artsEuropeHistory. 3. Performing artsIslamic Empire. 4. EuropeCivilizationIslamic influences. 5. Islamic Empire CivilizationEuropean influences. 6. EuropeRelationsIslamic Empire. 7. Islamic Empire RelationsEurope. I. Schlting, Sabine. II. Mller, Sabine Lucia. III. Hertel, Ralf, 1973

PN2570.E24 2012

790.2094dc23

2011052185

ISBN 9781409438502 (hbk)

ISBN 9781315578422 (ebk-PDF)

ISBN 9781317147060 (ebk-ePUB)

Sabine Schlting, Sabine Lucia Mller and Ralf Hertel

Sabine Lucia Mller

Gerald MacLean

Richmond Barbour

Sabine Schlting

Susanne Scholz

Wibke Joswig

Matthew Dimmock

Ralf Hertel

Clemens Risi

Claudia Breger

Richmond Barbour is Professor of English at Oregon State University. His research interests include early modern Londons maritime and theatrical industries, authorship and travel writing, cross-cultural relations, the London East India Company and the emergence of corporate power. His publications include Before Orientalism: Londons Theatre of the East, 15761626 (2003), and a scholarly edition, The Third Voyage Journals: Writing and Performance in the London East India Company, 160710 (2009). He is currently editing the Journal of John Saris, 161112, for publication by the Hakluyt Society.

Claudia Breger is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of Communication and Culture and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research and teaching focus on twentieth and twenty-first century literature, film and culture, with a particular emphasis on the interrelations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as literary, media and cultural theory. Her book publications include: An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance: Transnational Theater, Literature, and Film in Contemporary Germany (forthcoming 2012); Szenarien kopfloser Herrschaft Performanzen gespenstischer Macht: Knigsfiguren in der deutschsprachigen Literatur und Kultur des 20. Jahrhunderts