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List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1Ivy Schweitzer and Susan Castillo Part I Issues and Methods 7 1 Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire 9Teresa A. Toulouse 2 First Peoples: An Introduction to Early Native American Studies 24Joanna Brooks 3 Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Location, Creolization 38Ralph Bauer 4 Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures 60Michelle Burnham 5 The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics 78Paul Giles 6 Teaching the Text of Early American Literature 94Michael P. Clark 7 Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities 110Edward J. Gallagher Part II New World Encounters 121 8 Recovering Precolonial American Literary History: ‘‘The Origin of Stories’’ and the Popol Vuh 123Timothy B. Powell 9 Toltec Mirrors: Europeans and Native Americans in Each Other’s Eyes 141Renee Bergland 10 Reading for Indian Resistance 159Bethany Ridgway Schneider 11 Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe, and Sor Juana 174Electa Arenal and Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel 12 British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America 195Andrew Hadfield 13 The French Relation and Its ‘‘Hidden’’ Colonial History 220Sara E. Melzer 14 Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Writing on Brazil 241Elena Losada Soler 15 New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn’s Oroonoko 259Derek Hughes Part III Negotiating Identities 275 16 Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis, and Sor Juana 277Raquel Chang-Rodriguez 17 Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Ine´s de la Cruz and the loa to The Divine Narcissus 292Viviana Diaz Balsera 18 Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings 306Rodrigo Lazo 19 Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination 321Douglas Anderson 20 The Transoceanic Emergence of American ‘‘Postcolonial’’ Identities 336Gesa Mackenthun Part IV Genres and Writers: Cross-Cultural Conversations 351 21 The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures 353E. Thomson Shields, Jr. 22 The Conversion Narrative in Early America 369Lisa M. Gordis 23 Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain 387Hilary E. Wyss 24 America’s First Mass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition 402Gregory S. Jackson 25 Neither Here Nor There: Transatlantic Epistolarity in Early America 426Phillip H. Round 26 True Relations and Critical Fictions: The Case of the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures 446Kathleen Donegan 27 ‘‘Cross-Cultural Conversations’’: The Captivity Narrative 464Lisa M. Logan 28 Epic, Creoles, and Nation in Spanish America 480Jose Antonio Mazzotti 29 Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early New England Religious Lyric 500Amy M. E. Morris 30 Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American Natural Histories 517Kathryn Napier Gray 31 Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming ‘‘I’’/Eye in Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts 533Jerry M. Williams 32 Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire 551Elizabeth Maddock Dillon 33 Reading Early American Fiction 566Winfried Fluck Index 587