Jesuit accounts of the colonial Americas : intercultural transfers, intellectual disputes, and textualities / edited by Marc André Bernier, Clorinda Donato, and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donato, Clorinda, author, editor.

Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen, author, editor.

Bernier, Marc André, 1964- author, editor.

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Jesuits.

Anthropology--America--History--17th century.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--America--History--18th century.

Jesuits--America--History--17th century--Sources.

Jesuits--America--History--18th century--Sources.

Colonies.

History.

Spain--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

Spain.

Spain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

France--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

France.

France--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

Enlightenment.

America.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

vii, 464 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Published by the University of Toronto Press, in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2014.

Language Note:

Papers in English and French.

Contents:

Part I Intercultural Transfers

1 A Peculiar Idea of Empire: Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modem History / Girolamo Imbruglia Imbruglia, Girolamo 21

2 The Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilij's 1784 Saggio di Storia Americana / Clorinda Donato Donato, Clorinda 50

3 Imagining the Kingdom of Quito: Reading History and National Identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del Reino de Quito / Eileen Willingham Willingham, Eileen 81

4 For Love of Patria: Locating Self and Nation in Clavigero's Rendition of the Conquest of Mexico / Beatriz De Alba-Koch Alba-Koch, Beatriz De 107

5 Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer's History of the Abipones in a (Post)modern Perspective / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen 127

6 From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain / Perla Chinchilla Pawling Pawling, Perla Chinchilla 144

7 The Role of Culture and Art in France's Colonial Strategy of the Seventeenth Century / Sara K. Melzer Melzer, Sara K. 169

Part II Intellectual Disputes

8 José Basilio da Gama's Epic Poem O Uruguay (1769): An Intellectual Dispute about the Jesuit State of Paraguay / Wiebke Röben De Alencar Xavier Xavier, Wiebke Röben De Alencar 189

9 Changing Perspectives: The Other, the Self, the In-Between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth Century / Ute Fendler Fendler, Ute 219

10 East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of Their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America / Karen Stolley Stolley, Karen 243

11 "Ils estoient si subjects à leur bouche": la Relation de 1616 face à la topique antijésuite / Isabelle Lachance Lachance, Isabelle 263

12 Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l'observateur européen face au monde indigene / Klaus-Dieter Ertler Ertler, Klaus-Dieter 276

13 Une rhétorique du silence: I'æuvre jésuite dans la Description de la Lauisiane du récollet Louis Hennepin / Catherine Broué Broué, Catherine 291

Part III Textualities

14 L'héritage de José de Acosta / Pierre Berthiaume Berthiaume, Pierre 307

15 La Nouvelle-France dans I'imaginaire jésuite: terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste? / Marie-Christine Piofeet Piofeet, Marie-Christine 326

16 The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Enlightened / Margaret R. Ewalt Ewalt, Margaret R. 344

17 Pierre Pelleprat's Accounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655) / Réal Ouellet Ouellet, Réal, Marc André Bernier Bernier, Marc André 374

18 Dans le sillage du père Joseph-Francois Lafitau: les Avantures de Claude Le Beau / Andréanne Vallée Vallée, Andréanne 404.

Notes:

Papers based on proceedings of two seminars held at the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies of the William Andrews Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781442645721

1442645725

OCLC:

865495465