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Informationen zum Autor Susan Castillo is John Nichol Professor of American Literature at Glasgow University. Her books include Notes from the Periphery: Marginality in North American Literature and Culture (1995), Engendering Identities (1996) and Native American Women in Literature and Culture (1997, with Victor Da Rosa). Ivy Schweitzer is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and teaches in the Women's Studies, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies Programs. She is the author of The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England (1991). Together, they are also the editors of The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2001). Klappentext Consisting of more than 30 original essays by leading scholars in the field, this Companion provides a broad introduction to Colonial American literatures. The volume situates texts in their various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation. In particular, it brings out the comparative, hemispheric and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period, and highlights the interactions between non-scribal native groups and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing. The Companion is divided into four main sections: the opening section on issues and methods covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early American writing; the second section, entitled "New World Encounters", considers the interactions between cultural groups during the early centuries of exploration; the third section on identities looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; while the final section considers major genres and writers of the period in a series of "Cross-Cultural Conversations". The Companion is designed to be used alongside Castillo and Schweitzer's The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2001). Zusammenfassung * A broad introduction to the field of Colonial American literatures. * Situates the writing of this period in its various historical and cultural contexts! including colonialism! imperialism! diaspora! and nation formation. * Brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 Ivy Schweitzer and Susan Castillo Part I Issues and Methods 7 1 Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire 9 Teresa A. Toulouse 2 First Peoples: An Introduction to Early Native American Studies 24 Joanna Brooks 3 Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Location, Creolization 38 Ralph Bauer 4 Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures 60 Michelle Burnham 5 The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics 78 Paul Giles 6 Teaching the Text of Early American Literature 94 Michael P. Clark 7 Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities 110 Edward J. Gallagher Part II New World Encounters 121 8 Recovering Precolonial American Literary History: ''The Origin of Stories'' and the Popol Vuh 123 Timothy B. Powell 9 Toltec Mirrors: Europeans and Native Americans in Each Other's Eyes 141 Renée Bergland 10 Reading for Indian Resistance 159 Bethany Ridgway Schneider 11 Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe, and Sor Juana 174 Electa Arenal and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel 12 British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland a...
