Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Özyeşilpınar, Eda

Titel

Maps as Rhetorical Tools of Colonial Power and Alternative Cartographies: The Americas' Cartographic Invention

Ist Teil von

• Rhetoric review, 2024-04, Vol.43 (2), p.116-131

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This essay focuses on two historical maps as rhetorical artifacts: The Piri Reis Map of 1513 produced by the Turkish admiral Piri Reis in 1513, the Reis map, and the Map of the Island of Cuba and Surrounding Territories produced by the Cuban geographer, historian, and educator José María de la Torre y de la Torre in 1841, the de la Torre map. The Reis map demonstrates the colonial logic of Americas' cartographic invention while the de la Torre Map is an alternative cartographic artifact disrupting the Reis map's celebratory discourse and the settler-colonial legacy of the world heritage memory.