Robert Southey, Thomas Lindley and the Zombi

Whiteley, Giles

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“…Based on the work História da América Portuguesa (1730), written in Portuguese by Sebastião da Rocha Pita, Southey used zombi while describing an uprising of West Africans in the Brazilian colonial state of Pernambuco in 1694‐5. ‘Zombi’, he wrote, ‘is the name for the Deity, in the Angolan tongue’ (cited in Whiteley 2017: 164). Yet Southey was not the first to use ‘zombi’ in written English.…”

Section: Commodity Fetishism and The Industry Of Undeadnessmentioning

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“…Thomas Lindley used it some fourteen years earlier in his Narrative of a voyage to Brazil (1805). Referring to a system of rule practised by West Africans, Lindley says: ‘They formed a political constitution, beginning by choosing a prince, whom they saluted with the name Zombi (or Powerful): this dignity was to last for life only: continuing elective; from among the most experienced, brave, prudent, of the nation’ (cited in Whiteley 2017: 165).…”

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Edible zombis: fresh fish and the industry of cosmetic corpses

Baptista

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2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Doing research on fishery commodities in Portugal led us to an enigma: for a dead fish to be fresco (fresh) it must be alive. This paradox manifests at a popular, commercial, and legal level. It denotes the interruption of the difference between being dead and being alive in the commodity form. In Portugal, we suggest, the commercialization of peixe fresco (fresh fish) is based on the production and consumption of edible ‘zombis’: seafood corpses technologically and symbolically crafted as undead. An open concept, ‘edible zombis’ is part of an experimental vocabulary that foregrounds the productive agency of undeadness, both biological and commercial, in the seafood economic complex. It relates to the ordinary practice of necromancy in the commodity‐based world. Edible zombis are commodity fetishes that fetishize their producers and consumers, suspending them from the capitalist system in which they live.

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Section: Commodity Fetishism and The Industry Of Undeadnessmentioning

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Section: Commodity Fetishism and The Industry Of Undeadnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Edible zombis: fresh fish and the industry of cosmetic corpses

Baptista

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2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Intermarriage in theQuilombo: Southey’s Republic of Runaway Slaves

Aparicio

2021

European Romantic Review

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For Reginald Heber, reviewer of Robert Southey's History of Brazil in the Quarterly Review, one of the most "striking" parts of Southey's narrative was that the Portuguese fostered intermarriage in their colonial territories, instead of promoting segregation. Depictions of intermarriage in the text are in fact abundant but remain understudied, even amongst several recent outstanding publications on Southey and imperialism. In this essay, I analyze one of these depictions of intermarriage: the quilombo of Palmares, a "rustic republic" founded by runaway slaves. I argue that Southey uses the quilombo of Palmares, a marginalized multi-ethnic community in the Portuguese imperial territory, to imagine the origin of new nations through intermarriage. I demonstrate that Southey's Palmares superadds classical republicanism to a discourse of organic nations with distinct customs. I conclude that, for Southey, Palmares illustrates a troubling possibility suggested by the racial constitution of the Brazilian society that pushed Palmarese citizens into marginality: that the dissolution of race categories through intermarriage could be an advantageous and inevitable outcome in imperial societies.

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Robert Southey, Thomas Lindley and the Zombi

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Edible zombis: fresh fish and the industry of cosmetic corpses

Edible zombis: fresh fish and the industry of cosmetic corpses

Intermarriage in theQuilombo: Southey’s Republic of Runaway Slaves

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