Sharon Kinoshita: "Re-Orientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo"
- When
- Wed Feb 13, 2013
- Where
- UCSC Humanities 1 Room 210
- Time
- 12:15pm - 2:00pm
- Tags
- Education
Description
In her new translation of Marco Polo’s Travels, Sharon Kinoshita reorients a text typically read as a western narrative of first contact, by returning it to its original context, the midpoint of the century chronicled in Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony, and to its original title, The Description of the World.Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for Mediterranean Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
More Info
- Link
- http://ccs.ihr.ucsc.edu/
- Call
- 831-459-5655
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