A companion to the literatures of colonial America / edited by Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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