Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas

Marc AndrÉ Bernier is the Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric at l’UniversitÉ du QuÉbec À Trois-RiviÈres.Clorinda Donato is a professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, and director of the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies.Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink is a senior professor in the Department of Romance Literatures, Languages, and Cultures at Saarland University and co-director (with Susanne Greilich) of a research project on the translation of eighteenth-century encyclopedias funded by the DFG (German Research Council).

"This volume will be incredibly useful for scholars wanting to delve deeper into understanding the very nature of Jesuit writings and their significance at the dawn of modernity. Using a comparative approach, Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas offers eighteen well-presented essays that lay the essential groundwork for a field of study undergoing a dramatic renewal." - Eileen M. Angelini, East Carolina University (Dalhousie French Studies) "This volume is indeed an important contribution in the field of Jesuit studies... "(Journal of Early Modern History 22) ‘This book will be useful for scholars willing to know more about the role of American Jesuits at the turn to modernity… It will stimulate further studies about the relationship of American Jesuits with the dissemination of knowledge they produced.’- Pablo Abascal Sherwll Raull (The Sixteenth Century Journal vol 47:04:2016) ‘This is an outstanding contribution, one that focuses primarily on the literary and philosophical nature of Enlightenment period Jesuit accounts of America.’- Sabine Hyland (Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:04:2014)

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionMarc AndrÉ Bernier (UniversitÉ du QuÉbec À Trois-RiviÈres, French Literature), Clorinda Donato (California State University, French and Italian), Hans-JÜrgen LÜsebrink (UniversitÄt des SaarbrÜcken, Chair of Romance Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication)Part I: Intercultural Transfers A Peculiar Idea of Empire. Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern HistoryGirolamo Imbruglia (University “l’Orientale” in Naples, Humanities and Social Sciences)The Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-Expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilij’s 1784 Saggio di Storia AmericanaClorinda DonatoImagining the Kingdom of Quito: Reading History and National Identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del Reino de QuitoEileen Willingham (Independent Scholar, Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication)For Love of Patria: Locating Self and Nation in Clavijero's Rendition of the Conquest of MexicoBeatriz de Alba-Koch (University of Victoria, Latin American Studies)Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer’s History of the Abipones in a (post)modern perspectiveHans-JÜrgen LÜsebrinkFrom Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New SpainPerla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana, History)France’s Colonial Strategy of Cultural AssimilationSara E. Melzer (University of California, French and Francophone Studies)Part II: Intellectual Disputes JosÉ BasÍlio da Gama’s epic poem O Uraguay (1769): an intellectual dispute about the Jesuit state of ParaguayWiebke RÖben de Alencar Xavier (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, ModernForeign Languages and Literatures)Changing Perspectives: The Other, the Self, the In-Between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth CenturyUte Fendler (University of Bayreuth, Francophone Literature, Cultures and Media in Africa)East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish AmericaKaren Stolley (Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese)“Ils estoient si subjects À leur bouche”: la Relation de 1616 face À la topique antijÉsuiteIsabelle Lachance (l’UniversitÉ du QuÉbec À Trois-RiviÈres, Canada Research Chair inRhetoric)Les Relations des jÉsuites et la construction de l’observateur europÉen face au monde indigÈneKlaus-Dieter Ertler (University of Graz, Roman Literature)Une rhÉtorique du silence: l’Œuvre jÉsuite dans la Description de la Louisiane du rÉcollet Louis HennepinCatherine BrouÉ(University of Quebec, Literature)Part III: Textualities L’hÉritage de JosÉ de AcostaPierre Berthiaume (University of Ottawa, Professor Emeritus)La Nouvelle-France dans l’imaginaire jÉsuite: terra doloris ou JÉrusalem cÉleste?Marie-Christine Pioffet (York University, French Studies)The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco IllustratedMargaret R. Ewalt (Wake Forest University, Spanish)Pierre Pelleprat’s Accounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655)RÉal Ouellet (UniversitÉ Laval, Professor Emeritus) and Marc AndrÉ BernierDans le sillage du pÈre Joseph-FranÇois Lafitau: les Avantures de Claude Le BeauAndrÉanne VallÉe (Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, French)Postface De l’usage de la comparaison dans les Écrits des JÉsuites sur les AmÉriquesHans-JÜrgen LÜsebrinkList of ContributorsIndex