Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas

Marc Andre Bernier is the Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric at l'Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres. Clorinda Donato is the George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies and professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach. Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink is the Chair of Romance Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication at Universitat des Saarlandes.

Acknowledgements Introduction Marc Andre Bernier (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, French Literature), Clorinda Donato (California State University, French and Italian), Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink (Universitat des Saarbrucken, Chair of Romance Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication) Part I: Intercultural Transfers * A Peculiar Idea of Empire. Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern History Girolamo Imbruglia (University "l'Orientale" in Naples, Humanities and Social Sciences)* The Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-Expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilij'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 (Independent Scholar, Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication)* For Love of Patria: Locating Self and Nation in Clavijero's Rendition of the Conquest of Mexico Beatriz de Alba-Koch (University of Victoria, Latin American Studies)* Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer's History of the Abipones in a (post)modern perspective Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink* From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain Perla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana, History)* France's Colonial Strategy of Cultural Assimilation Sara E. Melzer (University of California, French and Francophone Studies) Part II: Intellectual Disputes * Jose Basilio da Gama's epic poem O Uraguay (1769): an intellectual dispute about the Jesuit state of Paraguay Wiebke Roben de Alencar Xavier (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures)* Changing Perspectives: The Other, the Self, the In-Between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth Century Ute Fendler (University of Bayreuth, Francophone Literature, Cultures and Media in Africa)* East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America Karen Stolley (Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese)*"Ils estoient si subjects a leur bouche": la Relation de 1616 face a la topique antijesuite Isabelle Lachance (l'Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric)* Les Relations des jesuites et la construction de l'observateur europeen face au monde indigene Klaus-Dieter Ertler (University of Graz, Roman Literature)* Une rhetorique du silence: l'/uvre jesuite dans la Description de la Louisiane du recollet Louis Hennepin Catherine Broue(University of Quebec, Literature) Part III: Textualities * L'heritage de Jose de Acosta Pierre Berthiaume (University of Ottawa, Professor Emeritus)* La Nouvelle-France dans l'imaginaire jesuite: terra doloris ou Jerusalem celeste? Marie-Christine Pioffet (York University, French Studies)* The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Illustrated Margaret R. Ewalt (Wake Forest University, Spanish)* Pierre Pelleprat's Accounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655) Real Ouellet (Universite Laval, Professor Emeritus) and Marc Andre Bernier* Dans le sillage du pere Joseph-Francois Lafitau: les Avantures de Claude Le Beau Andreanne Vallee (Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, French) Postface * De l'usage de la comparaison dans les ecrits des Jesuites sur les Ameriques Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink List of Contributors Index