A companion to the literatures of colonial America
- 種類:
- 電子ブック
- 責任表示:
- edited by Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer
- 出版情報:
- 2005
- 著者名:
- シリーズ名:
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 35
- ISBN:
- 9780470996416 [0470996412]
9781405152082 [1405152087]
9781405112918 [1405112913]
9781405165044 [1405165049]
9781280285974 [1280285974] - 注記:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Bri
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 cons
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