Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas : Empires, Texts, Identities.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas -- PART I: New Worlds, New Empires, New Societies -- Cannibalism, the Eucharist, and Criollo Subjects -- Sons of the Dragon: or, The English Hero Revived -- Cruel Criollos in Guaman Poma de Ayala's First New Chronicle and Good Government -- Barefoot Folks with Tawny Cheeks: Creolism in the Literary Chesapeake, 1680-1750 -- Colonial Writings as Minority Discourse? -- PART II: The Cultural Geography of Creole Aesthetics -- Sor Juana Criolla and the Mexican Archive: Public Performances -- Creole Bradstreet: Philip Sidney, Alexander the Great, and English Identities -- Self- and Collective Identity among New Christians in the Periphery of the Iberian Empires: Bento Teixeira, Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão, and Manuel Beckman -- Spectacular Wealth: Baroque Festivals and Creole Consciousness in Colonial Mining Towns of Brazil and Peru -- PART III: 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) -- Female Captivity and "Creole" Male Identity in the Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Hannah Swarton -- The Ambivalent Nativism of Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada (1688) -- William Byrd II and the Crossed Languages of Science, Satire, and Empire in British America -- PART IV: Creole Politics of Memory and Knowledge -- El Dorado, Paradise, and Supreme Sanctity in Seventeenth-Century Peru: A Creole Agenda -- Popularizing the Ethic of Conquest: Peralta Barnuevo's Historia de España vindicada -- The "Rebellious Muse": Time, Space, and Race in the Revolutionary Epic -- Natty in the 1820s: Creole Subjects and Democratic Aesthetics in the Early Leatherstocking Tales.
Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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