A Companion To The Literatures Of Colonial America

by Castillo, Susan; Schweitzer, Ivy

• ISBN13: 9781405112918
• ISBN10: 1405112913
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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).

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Issues and Methods	p. 7
Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire	p. 9
First Peoples: An Introduction to Early Native American Studies	p. 24
Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Location, Creolization	p. 38
Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures	p. 60
The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics	p. 78
Teaching the Text of Early American Literature	p. 94
Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities	p. 110
New World Encounters	p. 121
Recovering Precolonial American Literary History: "The Origin of Stories" and the Popol Vub	p. 123
Toltec Mirrors: Europeans and Native Americans in Each Other's Eyes	p. 141
Reading for Indian Resistance	p. 159
Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe, and Sor Juana	p. 174
British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America	p. 195
The French Relation and Its "Hidden" Colonial History	p. 220
Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Writing on Brazil	p. 241
New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko	p. 259
Negotiating Identities	p. 275
Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis, and Sor Juana	p. 277
Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the loa to The Divine Narcissus	p. 292
Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings	p. 306
Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination	p. 321
The Transoceanic Emergence of American "Postcolonial" Identities	p. 336
Genres and Writers: Cross-Cultural Conversations	p. 351
The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures	p. 353
The Conversion Narrative in Early America	p. 369
Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain	p. 387
America's First Mass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition	p. 402
Neither Here Nor There: Transatlantic Epistolarity in Early America	p. 426
True Relations and Critical Fictions: The Case of the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures	p. 446
"Cross-Cultural Conversations": The Captivity Narrative	p. 464
Epic, Creoles, and Nation in Spanish America	p. 480
Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early New England Religious Lyric	p. 500
Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American Natural Histories	p. 517
Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming "I"/Eye in Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts	p. 533
Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire	p. 551
Reading Early American Fiction	p. 566
Index	p. 587
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