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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787352003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

2009

ISBN

979-88-908794-4-8

1-4696-0041-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (518 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

980.01

Soggetti

Latin American literature - To 1800 - History and criticism

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

Cultural fusion in literature

Creoles in literature

Cultural fusion - Latin America - History

Cultural fusion - North America - History

North America Civilization

Latin America Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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;