Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas by Jos Antonio Mazz... - 9780807859681

Creole Subjects in the Colonial AmericasEmpires, Texts, Identities\nAuthor(s): Jos Antonio Mazzotti\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9780807859681, 978-0807859681\nSynopsis\nThis work focuses on colonial literary elites in Ibero- and British America. Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as 'creoles' who moved from the Old World to the New World, this collection of eighteen original essays investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. \""\""Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas\""\"" facilitates a cross-disciplinary, intrahemispheric, and Atlantic comparison of early settlers' colonialism and creole elites' relation to indigenous peoples and imperial regimes. Contributors explore li.