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1 online resource (xv, 608 pages) : illustrations |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 35 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 35
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| Contents |
Part I: Issues and methods -- Prologomenal thinking: some possibilities and limits of comparative desire / Teresa Toulouse -- First peoples: an introduction to early native american studies / Joanna Brooks -- Toward a cultural geography of colonial american literatures: empire, location, creolization / Ralph Bauer -- Textual investments economics and colonial american literatures / Michelle Burnham -- The Culture of colonial america theology and aesthetics / Paul Giles -- Teaching the text of early american literature / Michael P. Clarke -- Teaching with the new technology: three intriguing opportunities / Edward J. Gallagher -- Part II: New world encounters Recovering pre-colonial american literary history: "the origin of stories" and the Popol Vuh / Timothy Powell -- Toltec mirrors: native Americans and Europeans in each other's eyes / Renee Bergland -- Reading for Indian resistance / Bethany Schneider -- Refocusing new Spain and spanish colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe and Sor Juana / Electa Arenal -- British colonial expansion westwards: Ireland and America / Andrew Hadfield -- The French relation and it's "hidden" colonial history / Sara Melzer -- Visions of the other in 16th and 17th writing on Brazil / Elena Losada Soler -- New world ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko / Derek Hughes -- Part III: Negotiating identities Gendered voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis and Sor Juana / Raquel Chang-Rodriguez -- Cleansing mexican antiquity: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the ioa to the divine narcissus / Viviana Diaz Balsera -- Hemispheric americanism: Latin American exiles and US revolutionary writings / Rodrigo Lazo -- Putting together the pieces: notes on the Eighteenth Century literary imagination / Douglas Anderson -- The Transoceanic emergence of american 'postcolonial' identities / Gesa Mackenthun -- Part IV: Genres and writers: cross-cultural conversations The genre of exploration and conquest narratives / Tom Shields -- The Conversion narrative in early America / Lisa Gordis -- Indigenous literacies: new england and new spain / Hilary Wyss -- Anglo-American religious culture: sermons, preaching, and the forensic and literary traditions of protestantism, 1530-1830 / Greg Jackson -- Neither here nor there: epistolarity in early America / Phil Round -- True relations and critical fictions: the case of personal narratives in colonial american writing / Kathleen Donegan -- "Cross-cultural conversations": the captivity narrative / Lisa Logan -- Epic, creoles, and nation in spanish america / Jose Mazzotti -- Plainness and paradox: colonial tensions in the early new england religious lyric / Amy Morris -- Captivating animals: science and spectacle in early american natural histories / Kathryn Napier Gray -- Challenging convention historiography: the roaming 'I' in early colonial-american eyewitness accounts / Jerry M. Williams -- Republican theatricality and transatlantic empire / Elizabeth Dillon -- Reading early american fiction / Winfried Fluck |
| Summary |
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) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.
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Colonies in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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United States -- Literatures http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140372 -- History and criticism.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001187
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United States -- Intellectual life http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363 -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012473
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140364
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literatures.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Castillo, Susan P., 1948-
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Schweitzer, Ivy.
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Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| ISBN |
0470996412 |
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1280285974 |
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1405112913 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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1405152087 |
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1405165049 |
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9780470996416 |
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9781280285974 |
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9781405112918 |
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9781405152082 |
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9781405165044 |
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