Pubbl/distr/stampa	[Chapel Hill, North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (518 p.)
Disciplina	980.01
Collana	Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Soggetto topico	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
ISBN	979-88-908794-4-8 1-4696-0041-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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;
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Autore	Siemerling Winfried <1956->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York, : Routledge, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (219 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/358
Soggetto topico	American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Canadian literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc National characteristics, American, in literature National characteristics, Canadian, in literature Politics and literature - North America Criticism - North America
ISBN	1-280-05864-1 0-203-42052-7 1-283-60447-7 9786613916921 1-134-30748-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; New World returns; "Who cuts the border?": national approaches, comparative literature, postcolonial studies; Cultural difference and national canons; Orality and emergence; 2 Comparative North American literary history, alterity, and a hermeneutics of non-transcendence; The "newness" of the New World; From conscience excluante to the anxieties of comparison; Sacvan Bercovitch and the inclusions of dissent; E. D. Blodgett: dialogues of reorigination and negotiation Pierre Nepveu and the (re)reading of national culture3 W. E. B. Du Bois, Hegel, and the staging of alterity; Du Bois and Hegelian teleology; "Assimilation" and recognition; Relation and non-transparency; 4 Double consciousness, African American tradition, and thevernacular: Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker; Doubled doubles: the sentence of tradition and double consciousnessin Henry Louis Gates; Democratic blues: Houston Baker and the representation of culture; 5 Native writing, orality, and anti-imperial translation: Thomas King and Gerald Vizenor; Anti-imperial translation Thomas King, Coyote, and Columbus: "two different dimensions oftime or consciousness"Gerald Vizenor: the postindian and The Heirs of Columbus; 6 Genealogies of difference; Multiculturalisms, transculturalism, difference in North (of) America; From narratives of emergence to transculture: Parti pris and Vice Versa; Charles Taylor, desire, and the limits of self-certainty; Cultural difference: the future of an illusion?; Notes; References; Index
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