This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early...
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This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing.Situates the writing of this period in its various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation. Highlights interactions between native, non-scribal groups and Europeans during the early centuries of exploration. Covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early Am
A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparitive Desire; 2 First Peoples: An Introduction to Early Native American Studies; 3 Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures:Empire, Location, Creolization; 4 Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures; 5 The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics; 6 Teaching the Text of Early American Literature
7 Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities8 Recovering Precolonial American Literary History:"The Origin of Stories" and the Popol Vub; 9 Toltec Mirrors: Europeans and Native Americans in Each Other's Eyes; 10 Reading for Indian Resistance; 11 Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche,Guadalupe, and Sor Juana; 12 British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America; 13 The French Relation and Its ''Hidden'' Colonial History; 14 Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Writing to Brazil
15 New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko16 Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda,Amarilis, and Sor Juana; 17 Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Ine´s de la Cruz and the loa to The Divine Narcissuss; 18 Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings; 19 Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination; 20 The Transoceanic Emergence of American ''Postcolonial'' Identities; 21 The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures; 22 The Conversion Narrative in Early America
23 Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain24 America's First Mass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition; 25 Neither Here Nor There: Transatlantic Epistolarity in Early America; 26 True Relations and Critical Fictions: The Case of the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures; 27 ''Cross-Cultural Conversations'': The Captivity Narrative; 28 Epic, Creoles, and Nation in Spanish America; 29 Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early New England Religious Lyric; 30 Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American Natural Histories
31 Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming "I"/Eye in Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts32 Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire; 33 Reading Early American Fiction; Index;
