The Ethiopian root of Thomas More’sUtopia
| Autor: | Meskerem Lechissa Debele |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Literature
History Root (linguistics) Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry Anthropology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education The Renaissance Christianity Utopia Mainstream Literary criticism Sociology business 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity. 11:22-33 |
| ISSN: | 1753-7274 1818-6874 |
| Popis: | The classical utopian novels of early-modern Europe, such as Utopia, Christianopolis and City of the sun, are widely understood in mainstream academics as products of the writers’ inventive imaginations of better social organisations. Suggestions regarding the possibility that places with the social and administrative features depicted in the novels might actually have existed in medieval times, are often dismissed by Western scholars who argue that the role of non-European civilisations in the early-modern proliferation of utopian novels did not go beyond helping to inspire the writers’ creative mix of narrations. A disregard for the fact that medieval utopian novels could be modified and/or de-identified versions of earlier reports about 12th- and 13th-century Ethiopians (‘the Land of Prester John’) has severely distorted the mainstream understanding of utopianism and renaissance by African scholars. This article specifically focuses on More’s Utopia, to assert its Ethiopian root using historica... |
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