AILS – Alterity in Question: “Portraits of the Other from the New World in Montaigne’s Time”
UCLA University Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAbout a century after Columbus landed in an island of the Americas, Montaigne reconsidered various aspects of the encounter with the Other by commenting on travel narratives reporting on such experiences. Like many contemporaries writing about the implications of these events, he had a specific political and religious agenda in mind, yet his views on
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