{"product_id":"jesuit-accounts-of-the-colonial-americas-intercultural-transfers-intellectual-disputes-and-textualities-paperback-softback-9781487549770","title":"Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas; Intercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487549770","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIntercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarc André Bernier (Edited by), Clorinda Donato (Edited by), Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487549770\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eJesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas\u003c\/i\u003e offers eighteen well-presented essays that lay the essential groundwork for a field of study undergoing a dramatic renewal.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Eileen M. Angelini, East Carolina University (\u003cem\u003eDalhousie French Studies\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"This volume is indeed an important contribution in the field of Jesuit studies... \"\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Early Modern History 22) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;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.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Pablo Abascal Sherwll Raull (The Sixteenth Century Journal vol 47:04:2016) \u003cp\u003e‘This is an outstanding contribution, one that focuses primarily on the literary and philosophical nature of Enlightenment period Jesuit accounts of America.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Sabine Hyland (Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:04:2014)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cem\u003eJesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas\u003c\/em\u003e offers the first comprehensive examination of such writings and the role they played in solidifying images of the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarc 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)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I: Intercultural Transfers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Peculiar Idea of Empire. Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern History\u003cbr\u003e Girolamo Imbruglia (University “l’Orientale” in Naples, Humanities and Social Sciences)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-Expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilij’s 1784 \u003cem\u003eSaggio di Storia Americana\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Clorinda Donato\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImagining the Kingdom of Quito: Reading History and National Identity in Juan de Velasco's \u003cem\u003eHistoria del Reino de Quito\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eileen Willingham (Independent Scholar, Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor Love of Patria: Locating Self and Nation in Clavijero's Rendition of the Conquest of Mexico\u003cbr\u003e Beatriz de Alba-Koch (University of Victoria, Latin American Studies)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBetween Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer’s \u003cem\u003eHistory of the Abipones\u003c\/em\u003e in a (post)modern perspective\u003cbr\u003e Hans-JÜrgen LÜsebrink\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain\u003cbr\u003e Perla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana, History)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrance’s Colonial Strategy of Cultural Assimilation\u003cbr\u003e Sara E. Melzer (University of California, French and Francophone Studies)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II: Intellectual Disputes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003col start='\"8\"'\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJosÉ BasÍlio da Gama’s epic poem \u003cem\u003eO Uraguay\u003c\/em\u003e (1769): an intellectual dispute about the Jesuit state of Paraguay\u003cbr\u003e Wiebke RÖben de Alencar Xavier (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Modern\u003cbr\u003e Foreign Languages and Literatures)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChanging Perspectives: The Other, the Self, the In-Between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Ute Fendler (University of Bayreuth, Francophone Literature, Cultures and Media in Africa)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEast from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America\u003cbr\u003e Karen Stolley (Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Ils estoient si subjects À leur bouche”: la \u003cem\u003eRelation\u003c\/em\u003e de 1616 face À la topique antijÉsuite\u003cbr\u003e Isabelle Lachance (l’UniversitÉ du QuÉbec À Trois-RiviÈres, Canada Research Chair in\u003cbr\u003e Rhetoric)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLes \u003cem\u003eRelations\u003c\/em\u003e des jÉsuites et la construction de l’observateur europÉen face au monde indigÈne\u003cbr\u003e Klaus-Dieter Ertler (University of Graz, Roman Literature)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUne rhÉtorique du silence: l’Œuvre jÉsuite dans la \u003cem\u003eDescription de la Louisiane\u003c\/em\u003e du rÉcollet Louis Hennepin\u003cbr\u003e Catherine BrouÉ(University of Quebec, Literature)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III: Textualities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003col start='\"14\"'\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eL’hÉritage de JosÉ de Acosta\u003cbr\u003e Pierre Berthiaume (University of Ottawa, Professor Emeritus)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLa Nouvelle-France dans l’imaginaire jÉsuite: \u003cem\u003eterra doloris\u003c\/em\u003e ou JÉrusalem cÉleste?\u003cbr\u003e Marie-Christine Pioffet (York University, French Studies)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's \u003cem\u003eOrinoco Illustrated\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Margaret R. Ewalt (Wake Forest University, Spanish)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePierre Pelleprat’s \u003cem\u003eAccounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana\u003c\/em\u003e (1655)\u003cbr\u003e RÉal Ouellet (UniversitÉ Laval, Professor Emeritus) and Marc AndrÉ Bernier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDans le sillage du pÈre Joseph-FranÇois Lafitau: les \u003cem\u003eAvantures\u003c\/em\u003e de Claude Le Beau\u003cbr\u003e AndrÉanne VallÉe (Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, French)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePostface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003col start='\"19\"'\u003e\u003cli\u003eDe l’usage de la comparaison dans les Écrits des JÉsuites sur les AmÉriques\u003cbr\u003e Hans-JÜrgen LÜsebrink\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742760497432,"sku":"9781487549770","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jesuit-accounts-of-the-colonial-americas-intercultural-transfers-intellectual-disputes-and-textualities-paperback-softback-9781487549770","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}