Creole subjects in the colonial Americas : empires, texts, identities / edited by Ralph Bauer and Jose Antonio Mazzotti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauer, Ralph, editor.

Mazzotti, Jose Antonio, 1961- editor.

Series:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--To 1800--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.

American literature.

Cultural fusion in literature.

Creoles in literature.

Cultural fusion--Latin America--History.

Cultural fusion.

Cultural fusion--North America--History.

North America--Civilization.

North America.

Latin America--Civilization.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Chapel Hill, North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Summary:

Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as "creoles" who moved from the Old World to the New World, this collection of eighteen original essays investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas facilitates a cross-disciplinary, intrahemispheric, and Atlantic comparison of early settlers' colonialism and creole elites' relation to both indigenous peoples and imperial regimes. Contributors explore literatures written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English to identify creole responses to such concepts as communal identity, local patriotism, nationalism, and literary expression. The essays take the reader from the first debates about cultural differences that underpinned European ideologies of conquest to the transposition of European literary tastes into New World cultural contexts, and from the natural science discourse concerning creolization to the literary manifestations of creole patriotism. The volume includes an addendum of etymological terms and critical bibliographic commentary. Contributors: Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, City University of New York Lucia Helena Costigan, Ohio State University Jim Egan, Brown University Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame Carlos Jauregui, Vanderbilt University Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania Jose Antonio Mazzotti, Tufts University Stephanie Merrim, Brown University Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Jeffrey H. Richards, Old Dominion University Kathleen Ross, New York University David S. Shields, University of South Carolina Teresa A. Toulouse, Tulane University Lisa Voigt, University of Chicago Jerry M. Williams, West Chester University The contributors are Ralph Bauer, Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, Lucia Helena Costigan, Jim Egan, Sandra M. Gustafson, Carlos Jauregui, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Jose Antonio Mazzotti, Stephanie Merrim, Susan Scott Parrish, Luis Fernando Restrepo, Jeffrey H. Richards, Kathleen Ross, David S. Shields, Teresa A. Toulouse, Lisa Voigt, and Jerry M. Williams. The editors are Ralph Bauer and Jose Antonio Mazzotti.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas; PART I: New Worlds, New Empires, New Societies; Cannibalism, the Eucharist, and Criollo Subjects; Sons of the Dragon: or, The English Hero Revived; Cruel Criollos in Guaman Poma de Ayala's First New Chronicle and Good Government; Barefoot Folks with Tawny Cheeks: Creolism in the Literary Chesapeake, 1680-1750; Colonial Writings as Minority Discourse?; PART II: The Cultural Geography of Creole Aesthetics; Sor Juana Criolla and the Mexican Archive: Public Performances

Creole Bradstreet: Philip Sidney, Alexander the Great, and English Identities Self- and Collective Identity among New Christians in the Periphery of the Iberian Empires: Bento Teixeira, Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão, and Manuel Beckman; Spectacular Wealth: Baroque Festivals and Creole Consciousness in Colonial Mining Towns of Brazil and Peru; PART III: Creole Bodies: Race, Gender, Ethnicity; Gender and Gossip in Criollo Historiography: Juan Suárez de Peralta's Tratado del descubrimiento de las Indias y su conquista (1589)

Female Captivity and ""Creole"" Male Identity in the Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Hannah Swarton The Ambivalent Nativism of Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada (1688); William Byrd II and the Crossed Languages of Science, Satire, and Empire in British America; PART IV: Creole Politics of Memory and Knowledge; El Dorado, Paradise, and Supreme Sanctity in Seventeenth-Century Peru: A Creole Agenda; Popularizing the Ethic of Conquest: Peralta Barnuevo's Historia de España vindicada

The ""Rebellious Muse"": Time, Space, and Race in the Revolutionary Epic Natty in the 1820's: Creole Subjects and Democratic Aesthetics in the Early Leatherstocking Tales; Notes on Contributors; Index;

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908794-3-1

979-88-908794-4-8

1-4696-0041-2

OCLC:

935259546