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Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas
Intercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities
Marc André Bernier (Edited by), Clorinda Donato (Edited by), Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Edited by)
9781487549770
Paperback / softback, published 3 October 2022
277 pages
22.4 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.66 kg
"This volume will be incredibly useful for scholars wanting to delve deeper into understanding the very nature of Jesuit writings and their significance at the dawn of modernity. Using a comparative approach, Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas offers eighteen well-presented essays that lay the essential groundwork for a field of study undergoing a dramatic renewal." "This volume is indeed an important contribution in the field of Jesuit studies... " ‘This book will be useful for scholars willing to know more about the role of American Jesuits at the turn to modernity… It will stimulate further studies about the relationship of American Jesuits with the dissemination of knowledge they produced.’ ‘This is an outstanding contribution, one that focuses primarily on the literary and philosophical nature of Enlightenment period Jesuit accounts of America.’
In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France and Spain’s American colonies. That attention has brought a flow of new editions and translations of Jesuit accounts of the Americas; it is now time for a study that examines the full range of that work in a comparative perspective. Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas offers the first comprehensive examination of such writings and the role they played in solidifying images of the Americas. The collection also provides a much-needed re-examination of the work of the Jesuits in relation to Enlightenment ideals and the modern social sciences and humanities – two systems of thought that have in the past appeared radically opposed, but which are brought together here under the rubric of modern ethnographic knowledge. 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.
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 Part II: Intellectual Disputes Part III: Textualities Postface List of Contributors Index
Girolamo Imbruglia (University “l’Orientale” in Naples, Humanities and Social Sciences)
Clorinda Donato
Eileen Willingham (Independent Scholar, Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication)
Beatriz de Alba-Koch (University of Victoria, Latin American Studies)
Hans-JÜrgen LÜsebrink
Perla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana, History)
Sara E. Melzer (University of California, French and Francophone Studies)
Wiebke RÖben de Alencar Xavier (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Modern
Foreign Languages and Literatures)
Ute Fendler (University of Bayreuth, Francophone Literature, Cultures and Media in Africa)
Karen Stolley (Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese)
Isabelle Lachance (l’UniversitÉ du QuÉbec À Trois-RiviÈres, Canada Research Chair in
Rhetoric)
Klaus-Dieter Ertler (University of Graz, Roman Literature)
Catherine BrouÉ(University of Quebec, Literature)
Pierre Berthiaume (University of Ottawa, Professor Emeritus)
Marie-Christine Pioffet (York University, French Studies)
Margaret R. Ewalt (Wake Forest University, Spanish)
RÉal Ouellet (UniversitÉ Laval, Professor Emeritus) and Marc AndrÉ Bernier
AndrÉanne VallÉe (Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, French)
Hans-JÜrgen LÜsebrink