Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Issues and methods
  • Prologomenal thinking: some possibilities and limits of comparative desire / Teresa Toulouse
  • First peoples: an introduction to early native american studies / Joanna Brooks
  • Toward a cultural geography of colonial american literatures: empire, location, creolization / Ralph Bauer
  • Textual investments economics and colonial american literatures / Michelle Burnham
  • The Culture of colonial america theology and aesthetics / Paul Giles
  • Teaching the text of early american literature / Michael P. Clarke
  • Teaching with the new technology: three intriguing opportunities / Edward J. Gallagher
  • Part II: New world encounters Recovering pre-colonial american literary history: "the origin of stories" and the Popol Vuh / Timothy Powell
  • Toltec mirrors: native Americans and Europeans in each other's eyes / Renee Bergland
  • Reading for Indian resistance / Bethany Schneider
  • Refocusing new Spain and spanish colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe and Sor Juana / Electa Arenal
  • British colonial expansion westwards: Ireland and America / Andrew Hadfield
  • The French relation and it's "hidden" colonial history / Sara Melzer
  • Visions of the other in 16th and 17th writing on Brazil / Elena Losada Soler
  • New world ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko / Derek Hughes
  • Part III: Negotiating identities Gendered voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis and Sor Juana / Raquel Chang-Rodriguez
  • Cleansing mexican antiquity: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the ioa to the divine narcissus / Viviana Diaz Balsera
  • Hemispheric americanism: Latin American exiles and US revolutionary writings / Rodrigo Lazo
  • Putting together the pieces: notes on the Eighteenth Century literary imagination / Douglas Anderson
  • The Transoceanic emergence of american 'postcolonial' identities / Gesa Mackenthun
  • Part IV: Genres and writers: cross-cultural conversations The genre of exploration and conquest narratives / Tom Shields
  • The Conversion narrative in early America / Lisa Gordis
  • Indigenous literacies: new england and new spain / Hilary Wyss
  • Anglo-American religious culture: sermons, preaching, and the forensic and literary traditions of protestantism, 1530-1830 / Greg Jackson
  • Neither here nor there: epistolarity in early America / Phil Round
  • True relations and critical fictions: the case of personal narratives in colonial american writing / Kathleen Donegan
  • "Cross-cultural conversations": the captivity narrative / Lisa Logan
  • Epic, creoles, and nation in spanish america / Jose Mazzotti
  • Plainness and paradox: colonial tensions in the early new england religious lyric / Amy Morris
  • Captivating animals: science and spectacle in early american natural histories / Kathryn Napier Gray
  • Challenging convention historiography: the roaming 'I' in early colonial-american eyewitness accounts / Jerry M. Williams
  • Republican theatricality and transatlantic empire / Elizabeth Dillon
  • Reading early american fiction / Winfried Fluck