Creole subjects in the colonial Americas : empires, texts, identities /

Creole subjects in the colonial Americas : empires, texts, identities / edited by Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti. - Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (ix, 503 pages) : illustrations

Based on papers presented at a meeting sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists held in Tucson, Ariz. in 2002.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : creole subjects in the colonial Americas / 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? / 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 / 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 / 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 1820s : creole subjects and democratic aesthetics in the early Leatherstocking tales / Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti -- Carlos Jáuregui -- David S. Shields -- Raquel Chang-Rodríguez -- Jeffrey H. Richards -- Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel -- Stephanie Merrim -- Jim Egan -- Lúcia Helena Costigan -- Lisa Voigt -- Kathleen Ross -- Teresa A. Toulouse -- Luis Fernando Restrepo -- Susan Scott Parrish -- José Antonio Mazzotti -- Jerry M. Williams -- Ralph Bauer -- Sandra M. Gustafson.



9781469600413 9780807899021


Latin American literature--History and criticism.--To 1800
Cultural fusion in literature.
Creoles in literature.
Cultural fusion--History.--Latin America
Cultural fusion--History.--North America


Electronic Books.

PQ7081 / .C746 2009