Castillo, Susan : Glasgow University
Susan Castillo is Head of English Literature and Reader at Glasgow University. Her books include Notes from
the Periphery: Marginality in North American Literature and Culture (1995), Engendering Identities (1996) and Native
American Women in Literature and Culture (1997, with Victor Da Rosa).
Schweitzer, Ivy : Dartmouth College
Ivy Schweitzer is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and teaches in the
Women's Studies, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies Programs. She is the author of The Work of Self-Representation:
Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England (1991).
"This is that rare thing, a landmark anthology. Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitxer reconstruct our view
of early American writing and, in the process, make a significant contribution to the rewriting of American literary
history. Shifting the critical paradigms as it does, while providing a rich diversity of material, this will undoubtedly
be an indispensable resource for students of American literature and history. It will also prove invaluable for
anyone wanting to know more about the Americas before the arrival of Europeans, the conflicts and legacy of the
colonial period, and the founding of the American nation."
--Richard Gray, Professor of Literature at the University of Essex, Editor of the Journal of American Studies,
and a Fellow of the British Academy and Editorial Adviser for the Blackwell Anthologies
Compiled in response to emerging transnational perspectives in American Studies, this comprehensive and imaginative
anthology brings together a rich variety of works of colonial literature from across the Americas, covering the
period from first contact, through to settlement and the emergence of national identities, with an emphasis on
the American Revolutionary period.
The editors weave together a diverse collection of exploration and travel accounts, epic, occasional and meditational
poetry, histories and narratives, ballads, journal entries, oral narratives, letters, and essays to illustrate
the depth and breadth of American colonial cultures.
Most texts are presented in their original form from first editions. Alongside the standard English colonial texts,
works from Native American, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch and Italian sources are also included, some
newly translated into English, such as Manuel da Nobrega's Dialogue for the Conversion of the Indians. The volume
features a generous selection of texts from New Spain, New France, New Netherland, the Middle Atlantic region and
the Chesapeake and Indies, which are rarely brought together. It includes works not usually collected, like Benjamin
Church's Entertaining Passages Relating to King Philip's War, and gives a special emphasis to writing by women.
These selections, extensively annotated, expand the range of what is usually considered "American" literature,
and offer a unique comparative perspective.
This innovative collection enables students and general readers to examine the phenomenon of colonialism across
the Americas, both in general terms and in its specific consequences for Native American culture, and for European
explorers and settlers.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Exploration and Contact to 1600.
Introduction.
Before Columbus: Native American Cultures.
New World Encounters.
Part II: New World Identities: Exploration and Settlement to 1700.
Introduction.
New Spain.
New France.
The Chesapeake and Indies.
New England.
New Netherland.
Middle Atlantic.
Native American Views.
Part III: The Eighteenth Century.
Introduction.
Later Colonial Writers of the Americas.
Contested Visions: Revolution and Nation.
Bibliography.
Index.
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