A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Castillo, Susan; Schweitzer, Ivy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 American writing. * Looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. * Serves as a vital adjunct to Castillo and Schweitzer's 'The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology' (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405152082
• Artikelnr.: 38454785

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.

Notes on Contributors.

Part 1. Issues and Methods.

1. Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits ofComparative Desire (Teresa A. Toulouse).

2. First Peoples: An introduction to Early Native AmericanStudies (Joanna Brooks).

3. Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literature:Empire, location, Creolization (Ralph Bauer).

4. Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial AmericanLiteratures (Michelle Burnham).

5. The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics(Paul Giles).

6. Teaching the Text of Early American Literature (Michael P.Clark).

7. Teaching with the New Technology: Three IntriguingOpportunities (Edward J. Gallagher).

Part II. New World Encounters.

8. Recovering Precolonial American Literary History: "The Originof Stories" and the Popol Vuh (Timothy B. Powell).

9. Toltec Mirrors: European and Native Americans in EachOther's Eyes (Renée Bergland).

10. Reading for Indian Resistance (Bethany RidgwaySchneider).

11. Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche,Guadalupe, and Sor Juana (Electa Arenal and YolandaMartínez-San Miguel).

12. British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America(Andrew Hadfield).

13. The French Relation and its "Hidden" Colonial History (SaraE. Melzer).

14. Visions of the Other in Sixteenth andSeventeenth-Century Writing on Brazil (Elena LosadaSoler).

15. New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn'sOroonoko (Derek Hughes).

Part III. Negotiating Identities.

16. Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis,and Sor Juana (Raquel Chang-Radríguez).

17. Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruzand the loa to The Divine narcissus (Viviana DíazBalsera).

18. Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and USRevolutionary Writings (Rodrigo Lazo).

19. Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-CenturyLiterary Imagination (Douglas Anderson).

20. The Transoceanic Emergence of American "Postcolonial"Identities (Gesa Mackenthun).

Part IV. Genres and Writers: Cross-CulturalConversations.

21. The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures (E.Thomson Shields).

22. The Conversion Narrative in Early America (Lisa M.Gordis).

23. Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain (Hilary E.Wyss).

24. America's First Mass Media: Preaching and theProtestant Sermon Tradition (Gregory S. Jackson).

25. Neither Here Not There: Transatlantic Epistolary in EarlyAmerica (Philip H. Round).

26. True Relations and Critical Fictions: The case of thePersonal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures (KathleenDonegan).

27. "Cross-Cultural Conversations": The captivity Narrative(Lisa M. Logan).

28. Epic, Creoles, and nation in Spanish America (JoséAntonio Mazzotti).

29. Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early NewEngland Religious Lyric (Amy M. E. Morris).

30. Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early Americannatural Histories (Kathryn Napier Gray).

31. Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming "I"/Eyein Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts (Jerry M.Williams).

32. Republican Theatricaity and Transatlantic Empire (ElizabethMaddock Dillon).

33. Reading Early American Fiction (Winfried Fluck).

Index.

Rezensionen

"The Companion succeeds vividly in bringing unfamiliar texts to the attention of Anglophone audiences ... an essential source for the postgraduate student of colonial and post-colonial studies involving the Americas." Reference Reviews