ROUTES AND NETWORKS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN : GOA, MALABAR, AND MALACCA印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲

The article argues that the historiography of texts linked to the Indian Ocean circuit (focusing on the western coast of India—Konkan and Malabar—and the Straits of Malacca) tends to fail when analyzing them in isolation, according to national canons or stabilized colonial categories. Advocating a c...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Fernando Rosa Ribeiro
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Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau 2014
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spelling ROUTES AND NETWORKS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN : GOA, MALABAR, AND MALACCA印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲
The article argues that the historiography of texts linked to the Indian Ocean circuit (focusing on the western coast of India—Konkan and Malabar—and the Straits of Malacca) tends to fail when analyzing them in isolation, according to national canons or stabilized colonial categories. Advocating a comparative and network-based approach, the author proposes that certain “creole texts” (that is, productions born from complex local histories and simultaneously embedded in multilingual literary and philological trajectories) illuminate social and cultural aspects often overlooked. The method combines textual reading and historiographical contextualization, following the “origins and trajectories” of works in different languages and tracing how their meanings were reconfigured by shifts in colonial framing. As a central case, the Sejarah Melayu is discussed: its colonial renaming (from Sulalatus as-Salatin to “Malay annals”) is interpreted as a crucial transformation in the perception of the text, shifting it from a dynastic/multilayered narrative to a more ethnic emphasis. It concludes that treating these materials as creole allows them to be inserted into broader oceanic histories, revealing confluences of knowledge, translation, and circulation that exceed traditional analytical divisions.
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Macau
Review of Culture
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2014
Fernando Rosa Ribeiro
spellingShingle ROUTES AND NETWORKS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN : GOA, MALABAR, AND MALACCA印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲
Fernando Rosa Ribeiro
title ROUTES AND NETWORKS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN : GOA, MALABAR, AND MALACCA印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲
title_autocomplete ROUTES AND NETWORKS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN : GOA, MALABAR, AND MALACCA印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲
title_full ROUTES AND NETWORKS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN : GOA, MALABAR, AND MALACCA印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲
title_fullStr ROUTES AND NETWORKS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN : GOA, MALABAR, AND MALACCA印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲
title_full_unstemmed ROUTES AND NETWORKS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN : GOA, MALABAR, AND MALACCA印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲
title_short ROUTES AND NETWORKS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN : GOA, MALABAR, AND MALACCA印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲
title_sort routes and networks in the indian ocean : goa, malabar, and malacca印度洋的航線與貿易網絡:果阿,馬拉巴爾和麻六甲
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