Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas : : Intercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities / / Marc André Bernier, Clorinda Donato, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• HerausgeberIn: Bernier, Marc André,; Donato, Clorinda,; Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Peculiar Idea of Empire: Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern History -- 2. The Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilij's 1784 Saggio di Storia Americana -- 3. Imagining the Kingdom of Quito: Reading History and National Identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del Reino de Quito -- 4. For Love of Patria: Locating Self and Nation in Clavigero's Rendition of the Conquest of México -- 5. Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer's History of the Abipones in a (Post)modern Perspective -- 6. From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain -- 7. The Role of Culture and Art in France's Colonial Strategy of the Seventeenth Century -- 8. José Basílio da Gama's Epic Poem O Uraguay (1769): An Intellectual Dispute about the Jesuit State of Paraguay -- 9. Changing Perspectives: The Other, the Self, the In-Between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth Century -- 10. East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of Their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America -- 11. "Ils estoient si subjects à leur bouche": la Relation de 1616 face à la topique antijésuite -- 12. Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l'observateur européen face au monde indigène -- 13. Une rhétorique du silence: l'oeuvre jésuite dans la Description de la Louisiane du récollet Louis Hennepin -- 14. L'héritage de José de Acosta -- 15. La Nouvelle-France dans l'imaginaire jésuite: terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste? -- 16. The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Enlightened -- 17. Pierre Pelleprat's Accounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655) -- 18. Dans le sillage du père Joseph-François Lafitau: les Avantures de Claude Le Beau -- Postface: De l'usage de la comparaison dans les écrits des Jésuites sur les Amériques -- Contributors -- Index Nominum