Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early AmericaRobert Blair St. George Cornell University Press, 2000 - 417 páginas Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial.Rather than define early America in terms of conventional geographical, chronological, or subdisciplinary boundaries, their essays span landscapes from New England to Peru, time periods from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, and topics from religion to race and novels to nationalism. In his introduction Robert Blair St. George offers an overview of the genealogy of ideas and key terms appearing in the book.Part I, "Interrogating America," then challenges readers to rethink the meaning of "early America" and its relation to postcolonial theory. In Part II, "Translation and Transculturation," essays explore how both Europeans and native peoples viewed such concepts as dissent, witchcraft, family piety, and race. The construction of individual identity and agency in Philadelphia is the focus of Part III, "Shaping Subjectivities." Finally, Part IV, "Oral Performance and Personal Power," considers the ways in which political authority and gendered resistance were established in early America. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Interrogating America | 31 |
An Approach from the Caribbean | 33 |
Whats Colonial about Colonial America? | 49 |
Translation and Transculturation | 71 |
DISSENT AND DIFFERENCE | 73 |
Roger Williamss A Key into the Language of America | 88 |
COLONIAL VISIONS | 109 |
Shaping Subjectivities | 217 |
The Problematics of Trust and Public Display in the Writing of Eighteenth Century Philadelphia Merchants | 219 |
The Shadowy Origins of the American Bourgeoisie | 243 |
Portraits People and the Construction of Memory | 270 |
The Politics of Punishment and the History of the Body | 302 |
Oral Performance Personal Power | 325 |
Courtroom Performance in EighteenthCentury Boston | 327 |
Jemima Wilkinson and the Politics of Gender in PostRevolutionary America | 357 |
Transculturation and Heterogeneity in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega | 131 |
PURITANISMS PROGRESS | 148 |
What Did Christianity Do for Joseph Johnson? A Mohegan Preacher and His Community | 160 |
NATION AND RACE | 181 |
Scientific Discourse and Race in the PostRevolutionary United States | 201 |
Patriotic Violence Patriotic Sentiment in the Performances of Deborah Sampson Gannett | 380 |
Contributors | 401 |
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Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America Robert Blair St. George Vista previa limitada - 2018 |
Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America McNeil Center for Early American Studies Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |