Jesuit accounts of the colonial Americas: intercultural transfers, intellectual disputes, and textualities
Pt.1. Intercultural Transfers. Peculiar Idea of Empire : Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern History -- Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-expulsion Italy : Filippo Salvatore Gilij's 1784 Saggio di Storia Americana -- Imag...
| Sumario: | Pt.1. Intercultural Transfers. Peculiar Idea of Empire : Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern History -- Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-expulsion Italy : Filippo Salvatore Gilij's 1784 Saggio di Storia Americana -- Imagining the Kingdom of Quito : Reading History and National Identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del Reino de Quito -- For Love of Patria : Locating Self and Nation in Clavigero's Rendition of the Conquest of Mexico -- Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse : Martin Dobrizhoffer's History of the Abipones in a (Post) modern Perspective -- From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters : Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain -- Role of Culture and Art in France's Colonial Strategy of the Seventeenth Century Pt. 2. Intellectual Disputes. Jose Basilio da Gama's Epic Poem Uraguay (1769): An Intellectual Dispute about the Jesuit State of Paraguay -- Changing Perspectives : The Other, the Self, the In-Between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth -- East from Eden : Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of Their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America -- "Ils estoient si subjects a leur bouche": la Relation de 1616 face a la topique antijesuite -- Les Relations des jesuites et la construction de l'observateur europeen face au monde indigene -- Une rhetorique du silence : l'oeuvre j'esuite dans la Description de la Louisiane du recollet Louis Hennepin Pt. 3. Textualities. L'heritage de Jose de Acosta -- La Nouvelle-France dans l'imaginaire jesuite: terra doloris ou Jerusalem celeste? -- Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Enlightened -- Pierre Pelleprat's Accounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655) -- Dans le sillage du pere Joseph-Francois Lariats : les Avantures de Claude Le Beau |
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| Notas: | Papers based on proceedings of two seminars held at the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies of the William Andrews Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1442645725 |