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Author Castillo, Susan P., 1948-

Title Colonial encounters in New World writing, 1500-1786 : performing America / Susan Castillo
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Performing God and Mammon -- Performing history -- Performing the noble savage -- Performing the Creole
Summary Susan Castillo's pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or 'multi-voiced' texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Taking a selection of plays, printed dialogues, travel narratives and lexicographic studies in English, Spanish and French, the book explores both European and indigenous writers of the early Americas. Paying particular attention to performance and performativity in the texts of the early colonial world, Susan Castillo asks:why vast numbers of
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index
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Subject Drama -- History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
Racially mixed people in literature.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Literature
Drama
Indians in literature
Racially mixed people in literature
SUBJECT America -- Literatures -- History and criticism
America -- Literatures -- History and criticism
Subject America
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005008212
ISBN 0203569326
9780203569320
9786610413935
6610413932