Consisting of more than 30 original essays by leading scholars in the field, this Companion provides a broad introduction to Colonial American literatures. The volume situates texts in their various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation. In particular, it brings out the comparative, hemispheric and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period, and highlights the interactions between non-scribal native groups and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing. The Companion is divided into four main sections: the…mehr
Consisting of more than 30 original essays by leading scholars in the field, this Companion provides a broad introduction to Colonial American literatures. The volume situates texts in their various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation. In particular, it brings out the comparative, hemispheric and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period, and highlights the interactions between non-scribal native groups and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing. The Companion is divided into four main sections: the opening section on issues and methods covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early American writing; the second section, entitled "New World Encounters", considers the interactions between cultural groups during the early centuries of exploration; the third section on identities looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; while the final section considers major genres and writers of the period in a series of "Cross-Cultural Conversations". The Companion is designed to be used alongside Castillo and Schweitzer's The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Susan Castillo is John Nichol Professor of American Literature at Glasgow University. Her books include Notes from the Periphery: Marginality in North American Literature and Culture (1995), Engendering Identities (1996) and Native American Women in Literature and Culture (1997, with Victor Da Rosa). Ivy Schweitzer is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and teaches in the Women's Studies, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies Programs. She is the author of The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England (1991). Together, they are also the editors of The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).
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List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 Ivy Schweitzer and Susan Castillo Part I Issues and Methods 7 1 Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire 9 Teresa A. Toulouse 2 First Peoples: An Introduction to Early Native American Studies 24 Joanna Brooks 3 Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Location, Creolization 38 Ralph Bauer 4 Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures 60 Michelle Burnham 5 The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics 78 Paul Giles 6 Teaching the Text of Early American Literature 94 Michael P. Clark 7 Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities 110 Edward J. Gallagher Part II New World Encounters 121 8 Recovering Precolonial American Literary History: ''The Origin of Stories'' and the Popol Vuh 123 Timothy B. Powell 9 Toltec Mirrors: Europeans and Native Americans in Each Other's Eyes 141 Renée Bergland 10 Reading for Indian Resistance 159 Bethany Ridgway Schneider 11 Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe, and Sor Juana 174 Electa Arenal and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel 12 British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America 195 Andrew Hadfield 13 The French Relation and Its ''Hidden'' Colonial History 220 Sara E. Melzer 14 Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Writing on Brazil 241 Elena Losada Soler 15 New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko 259 Derek Hughes Part III Negotiating Identities 275 16 Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis, and Sor Juana 277 Raquel Chang-Rodríguez 17 Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Ine¿s de la Cruz and the loa to The Divine Narcissus 292 Viviana Díaz Balsera 18 Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings 306 Rodrigo Lazo 19 Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination 321 Douglas Anderson 20 The Transoceanic Emergence of American ''Postcolonial'' Identities 336 Gesa Mackenthun Part IV Genres and Writers: Cross-Cultural Conversations 351 21 The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures 353 E. Thomson Shields, Jr. 22 The Conversion Narrative in Early America 369 Lisa M. Gordis 23 Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain 387 Hilary E. Wyss 24 America's First Mass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition 402 Gregory S. Jackson 25 Neither Here Nor There: Transatlantic Epistolarity in Early America 426 Phillip H. Round 26 True Relations and Critical Fictions: The Case of the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures 446 Kathleen Donegan 27 ''Cross-Cultural Conversations'': The Captivity Narrative 464 Lisa M. Logan 28 Epic, Creoles, and Nation in Spanish America 480 José Antonio Mazzotti 29 Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early New England Religious Lyric 500 Amy M. E. Morris 30 Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American Natural Histories 517 Kathryn Napier Gray 31 Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming ''I''/Eye in Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts 533 Jerry M. Williams 32 Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire 551 Elizabeth Maddock Dillon 33 Reading Early American Fiction 566 Winfried Fluck Index 587
List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 Ivy Schweitzer and Susan Castillo Part I Issues and Methods 7 1 Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire 9 Teresa A. Toulouse 2 First Peoples: An Introduction to Early Native American Studies 24 Joanna Brooks 3 Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Location, Creolization 38 Ralph Bauer 4 Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures 60 Michelle Burnham 5 The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics 78 Paul Giles 6 Teaching the Text of Early American Literature 94 Michael P. Clark 7 Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities 110 Edward J. Gallagher Part II New World Encounters 121 8 Recovering Precolonial American Literary History: ''The Origin of Stories'' and the Popol Vuh 123 Timothy B. Powell 9 Toltec Mirrors: Europeans and Native Americans in Each Other's Eyes 141 Renée Bergland 10 Reading for Indian Resistance 159 Bethany Ridgway Schneider 11 Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe, and Sor Juana 174 Electa Arenal and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel 12 British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America 195 Andrew Hadfield 13 The French Relation and Its ''Hidden'' Colonial History 220 Sara E. Melzer 14 Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Writing on Brazil 241 Elena Losada Soler 15 New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko 259 Derek Hughes Part III Negotiating Identities 275 16 Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis, and Sor Juana 277 Raquel Chang-Rodríguez 17 Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Ine¿s de la Cruz and the loa to The Divine Narcissus 292 Viviana Díaz Balsera 18 Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings 306 Rodrigo Lazo 19 Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination 321 Douglas Anderson 20 The Transoceanic Emergence of American ''Postcolonial'' Identities 336 Gesa Mackenthun Part IV Genres and Writers: Cross-Cultural Conversations 351 21 The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures 353 E. Thomson Shields, Jr. 22 The Conversion Narrative in Early America 369 Lisa M. Gordis 23 Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain 387 Hilary E. Wyss 24 America's First Mass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition 402 Gregory S. Jackson 25 Neither Here Nor There: Transatlantic Epistolarity in Early America 426 Phillip H. Round 26 True Relations and Critical Fictions: The Case of the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures 446 Kathleen Donegan 27 ''Cross-Cultural Conversations'': The Captivity Narrative 464 Lisa M. Logan 28 Epic, Creoles, and Nation in Spanish America 480 José Antonio Mazzotti 29 Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early New England Religious Lyric 500 Amy M. E. Morris 30 Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American Natural Histories 517 Kathryn Napier Gray 31 Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming ''I''/Eye in Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts 533 Jerry M. Williams 32 Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire 551 Elizabeth Maddock Dillon 33 Reading Early American Fiction 566 Winfried Fluck Index 587
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