Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America

Susan Castillo is John Nichol Professor of American Literature at Glasgow University. Her books include Notes from the Periphery: Marginality in North American Literature and Culture (1995), Engendering Identities (1996) and Native American Women in Literature and Culture (1997, with Victor Da Rosa).Ivy Schweitzer is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and teaches in the Women's Studies, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies Programs. She is the author of The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England (1991). Together, they are also the editors of The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).

"The Companion succeeds vividly in bringing unfamiliar texts to the attention of Anglophone audiences ... an essential source for the postgraduate student of colonial and post-colonial studies involving the Americas." Reference Reviews

• List of Figures ixNotes on Contributors xiIntroduction 1Ivy Schweitzer and Susan CastilloPart I Issues and Methods 71 Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire 9Teresa A. Toulouse2 First Peoples: An Introduction to Early Native American Studies 24Joanna Brooks3 Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Location, Creolization 38Ralph Bauer4 Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures 60Michelle Burnham5 The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics 78Paul Giles6 Teaching the Text of Early American Literature 94Michael P. Clark7 Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities 110Edward J. GallagherPart II New World Encounters 1218 Recovering Precolonial American Literary History: ‘‘The Origin of Stories’’ and the Popol Vuh 123Timothy B. Powell9 Toltec Mirrors: Europeans and Native Americans in Each Other’s Eyes 141Renée Bergland10 Reading for Indian Resistance 159Bethany Ridgway Schneider11 Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe, and Sor Juana 174Electa Arenal and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel12 British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America 195Andrew Hadfield13 The French Relation and Its ‘‘Hidden’’ Colonial History 220Sara E. Melzer14 Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Writing on Brazil 241Elena Losada Soler15 New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn’s Oroonoko 259Derek HughesPart III Negotiating Identities 27516 Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis, and Sor Juana 277Raquel Chang-Rodríguez17 Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Ine´s de la Cruz and the loa to The Divine Narcissus 292Viviana Díaz Balsera18 Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings 306Rodrigo Lazo19 Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination 321Douglas Anderson20 The Transoceanic Emergence of American ‘‘Postcolonial’’ Identities 336Gesa MackenthunPart IV Genres and Writers: Cross-Cultural Conversations 35121 The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures 353E. Thomson Shields, Jr.22 The Conversion Narrative in Early America 369Lisa M. Gordis23 Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain 387Hilary E. Wyss24 America’s First Mass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition 402Gregory S. Jackson25 Neither Here Nor There: Transatlantic Epistolarity in Early America 426Phillip H. Round26 True Relations and Critical Fictions: The Case of the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures 446Kathleen Donegan27 ‘‘Cross-Cultural Conversations’’: The Captivity Narrative 464Lisa M. Logan28 Epic, Creoles, and Nation in Spanish America 480José Antonio Mazzotti29 Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early New England Religious Lyric 500Amy M. E. Morris30 Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American Natural Histories 517Kathryn Napier Gray31 Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming ‘‘I’’/Eye in Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts 533Jerry M. Williams32 Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire 551Elizabeth Maddock Dillon33 Reading Early American Fiction 566Winfried FluckIndex 587