Screen LibraryA companion to the literatures of colonial America
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....
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996416 |
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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). |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 608 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780470996416 0470996412 1405152087 9781405152082 1405112913 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405112918 9781405165044 1405165049 1280285974 9781280285974 |
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| Index Number: | PS185 |
| CLC: | I106-62 |
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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 literatures: 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 / Recovering pre-colonial american literary history: "the origin of stories" and the Popol Vuh / Toltec mirrors: native Americans and Europeans in each other's 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 it's "hidden" colonial history / Visions of the other in 16th and 17th writing on Brazil / New world ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko / Gendered voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis and Sor Juana / Cleansing mexican antiquity: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the ioa 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 / The genre of exploration and conquest narratives / The Conversion narrative in early America / Indigenous literacies: new england and new spain / Anglo-American religious culture: sermons, preaching, and the forensic and literary traditions of protestantism, 1530-1830 / Neither here nor there: epistolarity in early America / True relations and critical fictions: the case of personal narratives in colonial american writing / "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 convention historiography: the roaming 'I' in early colonial-american eyewitness accounts / Republican theatricality and transatlantic empire / Reading early american fiction / |