Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas

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

1. 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)
2. 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
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer’s History of the Abipones in a (post)modern perspective
   Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
6. From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
   Perla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana, History)
7. France’s Colonial Strategy of Cultural Assimilation
   Sara E. Melzer (University of California, French and Francophone Studies)

Part II: Intellectual Disputes

8. 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)
9. 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)
10. East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America
    Karen Stolley (Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese)
11. “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)
12. Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l’observateur européen face au monde indigène
    Klaus-Dieter Ertler (University of Graz, Roman Literature)
13. 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

14. L’héritage de José de Acosta
    Pierre Berthiaume (University of Ottawa, Professor Emeritus)
15. La Nouvelle-France dans l’imaginaire jésuite: terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste?
    Marie-Christine Pioffet (York University, French Studies)
16. The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Illustrated
    Margaret R. Ewalt (Wake Forest University, Spanish)
17. 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
18. Dans le sillage du père Joseph-François Lafitau: les Avantures de Claude Le Beau
    Andréanne Vallée (Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, French)

Postface

19. De l’usage de la comparaison dans les écrits des Jésuites sur les Amériques
    Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

List of Contributors

Index