Describing Imperial Space

Siegfried Huigen

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Page Range:: 23–50

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004545816_003

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on the composition of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën. To this end, it is first established how the book was presented to contemporary readers. Then the structure of the text is discussed and it is shown how Valentyn forged the extensive and heterogeneous material into a more or less coherent whole. The emphasis will be on the rhetorical templates and text formats that Valentyn employed. The most important among these templates is chorography, the description of a micro-region. Despite Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën being structured into separate volumes, and hierarchically ordered in ‘books’ and chapters, the structure of Valentyn’s work is primarily based on the individual chorographies of establishments of the VOC in Asia. To create these chorographies, Valentyn drew on a wide collection of documents and publications, using fixed rhetorical templates and implementing a recognisable narrative voice in his descriptions. As a result, despite the heterogeneity of the material, he managed to establish a degree of coherence.

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Shaping a Dutch East Indies

François Valentyn’s VOC Empire

丛编： Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 卷： 315

ISBN:: 9789004545816

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 28 Mar 2023

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- Asian Studies
  - South East Asia
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  - History of Science

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