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Possible Pasts : Becoming Colonial in Early America /

Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores Corporativos: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Otros Autores: St. George, Robert Blair
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.