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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).

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Issues and Methods
Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire
First Peoples: An introduction to Early Native American Studies
Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literature: Empire, location, Creolization
Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures
The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics
Teaching the Text of Early American Literature
Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities
New World Encounters.
Recovering Precolonial American Literary History: "The Origin of Stories" and the Popol Vuh
Toltec Mirrors: European and Native Americans in Each OtherÆs Eyes
Reading for Indian Resistance
Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe, and Sor Juana
British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America
The French Relation and its "Hidden" Colonial History
Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and SeventeenthûCentury Writing on Brazil
New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and BehnÆs Oroonoko
Negotiating Identities.
Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis, and Sor Juana
Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the loa to The Divine narcissus
Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings
Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination
The Transoceanic Emergence of American "Postcolonial" Identities
Genres and Writers: Cross-Cultural Conversations.
The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures
The Conversion Narrative in Early America
Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain
AmericaÆs First Mass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition
Neither Here Not There: Transatlantic Epistolary in Early America
True Relations and Critical Fictions: The case of the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures
"Cross-Cultural Conversations": The captivity Narrative
Epic, Creoles, and nation in Spanish America
Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early New England Religious Lyric
Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American natural Histories
Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming "I"/Eye in Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts
Republican Theatricaity and Transatlantic Empire
Reading Early American Fiction
Index
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