“到最后,你可能会更好地理解这些事情是真实的”:可信度和拉尔夫·哈默的《弗吉尼亚现状的真实论述》

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M. Lacombe
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摘要:1615年,随着拉尔夫·哈默著名的《真实话语》的出版,关于弗吉尼亚公司詹姆斯敦项目的一连串坏消息突然发生了逆转,它带来了意想不到的、几乎是天意的消息——波卡洪塔斯的皈依和婚姻。《真实的话语》描述了弗吉尼亚的命运发生了如此突然而戏剧性的变化,它需要仔细考虑可信度问题。哈默和弗吉尼亚公司借鉴了一系列文本,旨在指导旅行者如何使他们的观察和结论对读者可信。在《真实话语》中,他们组合了一种复合文本,其最后一部分声称提供了对切萨皮克阿尔冈琴人“诚实的内在意图”的直接洞察。虽然这一部分充满了轻蔑和轻蔑,哈默保留了这些细节,以使自己成为一种特殊的目击者观察者:批判性,一丝不苟,客观,记录细节,但让读者自己得出推论。哈默相信,以这种方式赢得读者信任的大部分细节都与提供给他的食物有关,尤其是鹿肉,这是一种根深蒂固的信任和相互尊重的象征,完美地补充了哈默作为“客观”观察者的立场。
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"To the end that you may the better perceive these things to be true": Credibility and Ralph Hamor's A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia
Abstract:In 1615, the steady stream of bad news about the Virginia Company's Jamestown project was suddenly reversed with the publication of Ralph Hamor's famous True Discourse, which brought the unexpected, almost providential news of Pocahontas's conversion and marriage. The True Discourse described such a sudden and dramatic change in Virginia's fortunes that it required careful attention to concerns of credibility. Hamor and the Virginia Company drew on a collection of texts that aimed to instruct travelers how to render their observations and conclusions credible to readers. In the True Discourse, they assembled a sort of composite text whose final section claimed to provide direct insight into the 'honest inward intentions' of the Chesapeake Algonquians. Although this section was replete with snubs and slights, Hamor preserved these details in order to present himself as a particular sort of eyewitness observer: critical, meticulous, and objective, recording details but leaving his readers to draw inferences themselves. Most of the details that Hamor believed would win his readers' trust in this way related to the foods he was offered, and especially venison, which was a symbol of trust and mutual regard so deeply rooted as to complement Hamor's stance as "objective" observer perfectly.
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