Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas

Marc André Bernier is the Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric at l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Clorinda Donato is a professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, and director of the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink is a senior professor in the Department of Romance Literatures, Languages, and Cultures at Saarland University and co-director (with Susanne Greilich) of a research project on the translation of eighteenth-century encyclopedias funded by the DFG (German Research Council).

Acknowledgements


Introduction


Marc André Bernier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, French Literature), Clorinda Donato (California State University, French and Italian), Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarbrücken, 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-Jürgen Lüsebrink
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




José Basílio da Gama’s epic poem O Uraguay (1769): an intellectual dispute about the Jesuit state of Paraguay

Wiebke Röben 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 à leur bouche”: la Relation de 1616 face à la topique antijésuite

Isabelle Lachance (l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Research Chair in

Rhetoric)
Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l’observateur européen face au monde indigène

Klaus-Dieter Ertler (University of Graz, Roman Literature)
Une rhétorique du silence: l’œuvre jésuite dans la Description de la Louisiane du récollet Louis Hennepin

Catherine Broué(University of Quebec, Literature)

Part III: Textualities




L’héritage de José de Acosta

Pierre Berthiaume (University of Ottawa, Professor Emeritus)
La Nouvelle-France dans l’imaginaire jésuite: terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste?

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)

Réal Ouellet (Université Laval, Professor Emeritus) and Marc André Bernier
Dans le sillage du père Joseph-François Lafitau: les Avantures de Claude Le Beau

Andréanne Vallée (Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, French)

Postface




De l’usage de la comparaison dans les écrits des Jésuites sur les Amériques

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

List of Contributors


Index