Possible pasts : becoming colonial in early America

Possible pasts : becoming colonial in early America

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.

xii, 417 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

973.2 P856 2000

(OCoLC)43118304

Based on papers presented at a conference held in June 1994 at the University of Pennsylvania.|"This book was developed in association with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture."|Contents: Postcolonial theory and early America : an approach from the Caribbean / Peter Hulme -- What's colonial about colonial America? / Michael Warner -- The native translator as critic : a Nahua playwright's interpretive practice / Louise M. Burkhart -- Dissent and the frontier of translation : Roger William's A key into the language of America / Anne G. Myles -- The Inca's witches : gender and the cultural work of colonization in seventeenth-century Peru / Irene Silverblatt -- Mestizo dreams : transculturation and heterogeneity in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / Jose´ Antonio Mazzotti -- From "religion and society" to practices : the new religious history / David D. Hall -- What did Christianity do for Joseph Johnson? : a Mohegan preacher and his community / Laura J. Murray -- War, the state, and religious norms in "Coromantee" thought : the ideology of an African American nation / John K. Thornton -- Consolidating national masculinity : scientific discourse and race in the post-revolutionary United States / Dana D. Nelson -- Secret selves, credible personas : the problematics of trust and public display in the writing of eighteenth-century Philadelphia merchants / Toby L. Ditz -- Black gothic : the shadowy origins of the American bourgeoisie / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- Bodies of illusion : portraits, people, and the construction of memory / Margaretta M. Lovell -- A criminal is being beaten : the politics of punishment and the history of the body / Michael Meranze -- Massacred language : courtroom performance in eighteenth-century Boston / Robert Blair St. George -- "Neither male nor female" : Jemima Wilkinson and the politics of gender in post-revolutionary America / Susan Juster -- The genders of nationalism : patriotic violence, patriotic sentiment in the performances of Deborah Sampson Gannettt / Sandra M. Gustafson.|Includes bibliographical references and index.|L2019M104

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