Title Jesuit accounts of the colonial Americas : intercultural transfers, intellectual disputes, and textualities / edited by Marc André Bernier, Clorinda Donato, and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

Published [Toronto] : Published by the University of Toronto Press, in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 464 pages) Series UCLA Clark Memorial Library series UCLA Clark Memorial Library series. Contents Part I. Intercultural transfers. A peculiar idea of empire : missions and missionaries of the society of Jesus in early modern history / Girolamo Imbruglia -- The politics of writings, translating, and publishing. New world histories in Post-expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilgi's 1784 Saggio di storia Americana / Clorinda Donato -- Imagining the kingdom of Quito: reading history and national identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del reino de quito / Eileen Willingham -- For love of Patria : locating self and nation in Clavigero's rendition of the conquest of México / Beatriz de Alba-koch -- Between ethnology and romantic discourse : Martin Dobrizhoffer's History of the abipones in a (post)modern perspective / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink -- From sacred rhetoric to the republic of letters : Jesuit sermons in seventeenth-century new Spain / Perla Chinchilla Pawling -- The role of culture and art in France's colonial strategy of the seventeenth century / Sara E. Melzer -- Part II. Intellectual disputes. José BasÍlio da Gama's epic poem O Uraguay (1769) : an intellectual dispute about the Jesuit state of Paraguay / Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier -- Changing perspectives : the other, the self, the in-between of the Jesuit experience in the eighteenth century / Ute Fendler -- East from Eden : domesticating exile in Jesuit accounts of their 1767 expulsion from Spanish America / Karen Stolley -- "Ils estoient si subjects á leur bouche" : la Relation de 1616 face á la topique antijésuite / Isabelle Lachance -- Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l'observateur européen face au monde indigéne / Klaus-Dieter Ertler -- Une rhétorique du silence : l'œuvre jésuite dans la Description de la louisiane du récollet Louis Hennepin / Catherine Broué -- Part III. Textualities. L'héritage de José de Acosta / Pierre Berthiaume -- La Nouvelle-France dans l'imaginaire jésuite: terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste/ Marie-Christine Pioffet -- The legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Enlightened / Margaret R. Ewalt -- Pierre Pelleprat's accounts of the Jesuit missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655) / Réal Ouellet and Marc André Bernier -- Dans le sillage du pére Joseph-François Lafitau : les Avantures de Claude Le Beau / Andréanne Vallée -- Postface : De l'usage de la comparaison dans les écrits des Jésuites sur les Amériques / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink Summary Linking Jesuit texts, the rhetorical tradition, and the newly emerging anthropology of the Enlightenment, this collection traverses the vast expanses of Old and New World France and Spain in fascinating new ways Notes Papers based on proceedings of two seminars held at the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies of the William Andrews Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Papers in English and French Print version record Subject Jesuits -- America -- History -- 17th century -- Sources Jesuits -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources SUBJECT Jesuits fast Jesuiten gnd Jesuiten. gnd (DE-601)101557310 Subject Anthropology -- America -- History -- 17th century Anthropology -- America -- History -- 18th century Enlightenment. Ethnology -- America -- History -- 17th century Ethnology -- America -- History -- 18th century Enlightenment (18th-century western movement) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. HISTORY -- Europe -- General. Ethnology Anthropology Enlightenment French colonies Spanish colonies Kulturelle Identität Kolonie. Ethnologie. Amerikabild. SUBJECT Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century France -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century France -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century Subject America Lateinamerika Frankreich. Spanien. Amerika. Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book Author Donato, Clorinda, author, editor Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen, author, editor Bernier, Marc André, 1964- author, editor. ISBN 9781442663480 1442663480

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