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Towards the end of the 16th century, when Queen Elizabeth saw that England's power would have to be based on control of the seas, the English set sail for new horizons. The main aim of this collective work is to study the forms of the first meetings in "contact zones", uncertain places where self and other are thrown together on a shared stage. What emerges is an intersubjective and not clearly defined space where the linguistic and pragmatic, cognitive and hermeneutic forms of an experience of the Other are established, invented, combined and negotiated.
At the same time, the work aims to analyse to what extent English identity, both individual and collective, benefitted from this contact, whilst establishing itself in particular narratives. From imperialist violence to ethnographic description, from nostalgia for the original transparency to the joyful claim of hybridisation or metatextual meditation and from Drake to Chatwin, how many utopias or mirages, how many fanciful scenarios, how much self-promotion were invented to satisfy time and time again the desire to see what had previously never been seen and to say what had never been heard.

Introduction de Frédéric Regard - Le tableau et la scène : éléments pour une réflexion sur les "zones de contact"

Sophie Lemercier-Goddard - Enfers et délices du Nouveau Monde : circulation, échange et religion dans The World Encompassed de Sir Francis Drake (1628)
Line Cottegnies - Le récit d'exploration à la Renaissance : The Discovery of Guiana de Sir Walter Ralegh (1596), entre anthropologie implicite et récit colonial
Nathalie Zimpfer - Domestication de l’Autre et création de soi : The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775, by Captain James Cook Interprétation, apories et méditation : enjeux de la métaphore dans An Account of the Pelew Islands de George Keate (1788)
Lacy Rumsey - Le mythe du passage : Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, de John Franklin (1823) Catherine Lanone
Anne-Pascale Bruneau - «The King’s Servant » : modalités de la rencontre dans Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa de Hugh Clapperton (1829)
Frédéric Regard - Fantasmes et chimères du descriptif ethnographique : deux études de cas, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage de Richard Francis Burton (1855-1856) et Anahuac d’Edward Burnett Tylor (1861)
Christine Reynier - Ascèse et désir sur le septième continent : Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-1869 d’Edward Whymper
Catherine Bernard - Figures de la reconnaissance nostalgique : In Patagonia de Bruce Chatwin (1977)

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