Creole subjects in the colonial Americas
Subtitle: empires, texts, identities
By: edited by Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti.
Contributors: Bauer, Ralph.; Mazzotti, José Antonio, 1961-; Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.; Society of Early Americanists.
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9780807832134; 9780807859681
Subjects: 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; Latin America -- Civilization; North America -- Civilization
Notes: Based on papers presented at a meeting sponsored by the Society of Early Americanists held in Tucson, Ariz. in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : creole subjects in the colonial Americas / Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti; title: New worlds, new empires, new societies.  Cannibalism, the Eucharist, and criollo subjects / Carlos Jáuregui; title: Sons of the dragon : or, the English hero revived / David S. Shields; title: Cruel criollos in Guaman Poma de Ayala's First new chronicle and good government / Raquel Chang-Rodríguez; title: Barefoot folks with tawny cheeks : creolism in the literary Chesapeake, 1680-1750 / Jeffrey H. Richards; title: Colonial writings as minority discourse? / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel; title: The cultural geography of creole aesthetics.  Sor Juana Criolla and the Mexican archive : public performances / Stephanie Merrim; title: Creole Bradstreet : Philip Sidney, Alexander the Great, and English identities / Jim Egan; title: Self- and collective identity among new Christians in the periphery of the Iberian empires : Bento Teixeira, Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão, and Manuel Beckman / Lúcia Helena Costigan; title: Spectacular wealth : Baroque festivals and creole consciousness in colonial mining towns of Brazil and Peru / Lisa Voigt; title: 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) / Kathleen Ross; title: Female captivity and "creole" male identity in the narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Hannah Swarton / Teresa A. Toulouse; title: The ambivalent nativism of Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada (1688) / Luis Fernando Restrepo; title: William Byrd II and the crossed languages of science, satire, and empire in British America / Susan Scott Parrish; title: Creole politics of memory and knowledge.  El Dorado, paradise, and supreme sanctity in seventeenth-century Peru : a creole agenda / José Antonio Mazzotti; title: Popularizing the ethic of conquest : Peralta Barnuevo's Historia de España vindicada / Jerry M. Williams; title: The "rebellious muse" : time, space, and race in the revolutionary epic / Ralph Bauer; title: Natty in the 1820s : creole subjects and democratic aesthetics in the early Leatherstocking tales / Sandra M. Gustafson.