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