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List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Part 1. Issues and Methods. 1.Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire(Teresa A. Toulouse). 2. First Peoples: An introduction to Early NativeAmerican Studies (Joanna Brooks). 3. Toward a Cultural Geography of ColonialAmerican Literature: Empire, location, Creolization (Ralph Bauer). 4. TextualInvestments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures (Michelle Burnham).5. The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics (Paul Giles). 6.Teaching the Text of Early American Literature (Michael P. Clark). 7.Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities (Edward J.Gallagher). Part II. New World Encounters. 8. Recovering Precolonial AmericanLiterary History: "The Origin of Stories" and the Popol Vuh (Timothy B.Powell). 9. Toltec Mirrors: European and Native Americans in Each Other'sEyes (Renee Bergland). 10. Reading for Indian Resistance (Bethany RidgwaySchneider). 11. Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche,Guadalupe, and Sor Juana (Electa Arenal and Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel). 12.British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America (Andrew Hadfield).13. The French Relation and its "Hidden" Colonial History (Sara E. Melzer).14. Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Writing onBrazil (Elena Losada Soler). 15. New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, andBehn's Oroonoko (Derek Hughes). Part III. Negotiating Identities. 16.Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis, and Sor Juana(Raquel Chang-Radriguez). 17. Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Ines dela Cruz and the loa to The Divine narcissus (Viviana Diaz Balsera). 18.Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings(Rodrigo Lazo). 19. Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on theEighteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Douglas Anderson). 20. TheTransoceanic Emergence of American "Postcolonial" Identities (GesaMackenthun). Part IV. Genres and Writers: Cross-Cultural Conversations. 21.The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures (E. Thomson Shields). 22.The Conversion Narrative in Early America (Lisa M. Gordis). 23. IndigenousLiteracies: New England and New Spain (Hilary E. Wyss). 24. America's FirstMass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition (Gregory S.Jackson). 25. Neither Here Not There: Transatlantic Epistolary in EarlyAmerica (Philip H. Round). 26. True Relations and Critical Fictions: The caseof the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures (KathleenDonegan). 27. "Cross-Cultural Conversations": The captivity Narrative (LisaM. Logan). 28. Epic, Creoles, and nation in Spanish America (Jose AntonioMazzotti). 29. Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early NewEngland Religious Lyric (Amy M. E. Morris). 30. Captivating Animals: Scienceand Spectacle in Early American natural Histories (Kathryn Napier Gray). 31.Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming "I"/Eye in EarlyColonial American Eyewitness Accounts (Jerry M. Williams). 32. RepublicanTheatricaity and Transatlantic Empire (Elizabeth Maddock Dillon). 33. ReadingEarly American Fiction (Winfried Fluck). Index.