Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas

by Bauer, Ralph; Mazzotti, Jose Antonio

• ISBN13: 9780807859681
• ISBN10: 0807859680
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Omohundro Inst of Early Amer

Summary

Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as "creoles" who moved from the Old World to the New World, this collection of eighteen original essays investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americasfacilitates a cross-disciplinary, intrahemispheric, and Atlantic comparison of early settlers' colonialism and creole elites' relation to both indigenous peoples and imperial regimes. Contributors explore literatures written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English to identify creole responses to such concepts as communal identity, local patriotism, nationalism, and literary expression.The essays take the reader from the first debates about cultural differences that underpinned European ideologies of conquest to the transposition of European literary tastes into New World cultural contexts, and from the natural science discourse concerning creolization to the literary manifestations of creole patriotism. The volume includes an addendum of etymological terms and critical bibliographic commentar.Contributors Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, City University of New York Lucia Helena Costigan, Ohio State University Jim Egan, Brown University Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame Carlos Jauregui, Vanderbilt University Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania Jose Antonio Mazzotti, Tufts University Stephanie Merrim, Brown University Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Jeffrey H. Richards, Old Dominion University Kathleen Ross, New York University David S. Shields, University of South Carolina Teresa A. Toulouse, Tulane University Lisa Voigt, University of Chicago Jerry M. Williams, West Chester University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Introduction: Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas	p. 1
New Worlds, New Empires, New Societies
Cannibalism, the Eucharist, and Criollo Subjects	p. 61
Sons of the Dragon: or, The English Hero Revived	p. 101
Cruel Criollos in Guaman Poma de Ayala's First New Chronicle and Good Government	p. 118
Barefoot Folks with Tawny Cheeks: Creolism in the Literary Chesapeake, 1680-1750	p. 135
Colonial Writings as Minority Discourse?	p. 162
The Cultural Geography of Creole Aesthetics
Sor Juana Criolla and the Mexican Archive: Public Performances	p. 193
Creole Bradstreet: Philip Sidney, Alexander the Great, and English Identities	p. 219
Self- and Collective Identity among New Christians in the Periphery of the Iberian Empires	p. 241
Spectacular Wealth: Baroque Festivals and Creole Consciousness in Colonial Mining Towns of Brazil and Peru	p. 265
Creole Bodies: Race, Gender, Ethnicity
Gender and Gossip in Criollo Historiography: Juan Suárez de Peralta's Tratado del descubrimiento de las Indias y su conquista (1589)	p. 293
Female Captivity and "Creole" Male Identity in the Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Hannah Swarton	p. 313
The Ambivalent Nativism of Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada (1688)	p. 334
William Byrd II and the Crossed Languages of Science, Satire, and Empire in British America	p. 355
Creole Politics of Memory and Knowledge
El Dorado, Paradise, and Supreme Sanctity in Seventeenth-Century Peru: A Creole Agenda	p. 375
Popularizing the Ethic of Conquest: Peralta Barnuevo's Historia de España vindicada	p. 412
The "Rebellious Muse": Time, Space, and Race in the Revolutionary Epic	p. 442
Natty in the 1820s: Creole Subjects and Democratic Aesthetics in the Early Leatherstocking Tales	p. 465
Notes on Contributors	p. 491
Index	p. 495
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