Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786: Performing America By Susa

Taylor & Francis

Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786Performing America\nAuthor(s): Susan Castillo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415316071, 978-0415316071\nSynopsis\nSusan Castillos pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or multi-voiced texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Taking a selection of plays, printed dialogues, travel narratives and lexicographic studies in English, Spanish and French, the book explores both European and indigenous writers of the early Americas. Paying particular attention to performance and performativity in the texts of the early colonial world, Susan Castillo asks:\n\nwhy vast numbers of polyphonic and performative texts emerged in the Early Americas\nhow these texts enabled explorers, settlers and indigenous groups to come to terms with radical differences in language,.