This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing.
- Situates the writing of this period in its various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation.
- Highlights interactions between native, non-scribal groups and Europeans during the early centuries of exploration.
- Covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early American writing.
- Looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Serves as a vital adjunct to Castillo and Schweitzer’s ‘The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology’ (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).
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
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