Possible pasts : becoming colonial in early America / edited by Robert Blair St. George.

Possible pasts : becoming colonial in early America / edited by Robert Blair St. George.

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.

xii, 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Papers from a conference "Possible pasts: critical encounters in early America" held in June 1994 at the University of Pennsylvania and co-sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Postcolonial theory and early America : an apporach from the Caribbean / Peter Hulme
What's colonial about colonial America? / Michael Warner
The native translator as critic : a Nahua playwright's interpretive practice / Louise M. Burkhart
Dissent and the frontier of translation : Roger William's A key into the language of America / Anne G. Myles
The Inca's witches : gender and the cultural work of colonization in seventeenth-century Peru / Irene Silverblatt
Mestizo dreams : transcultural and heterogeneity in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / José Antonio Mazzotti
From 'religion and society' to practices : the new religious history / David D. Hall
What did Christianity do for Joseph Johnson? : a Mohegan preacher and his community / Laura J. Murray
War, the state, and religous norms in 'Coromantee' thought : the ideology of an African American national / John K. Thornton
Consolidating national masculinity : scientific discourse and race inthe post-revolutionary United States / Dana D. Nelson
Secret selves, credible personas : the problematics of trust and public display in thewriting of eighteenth-century Philadelphia merchants / Toby L. Ditz
Black Gothic : the shadowy origins of the American bourgeoisie / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Bodies of illusion : portraits, people, and the construction of memory / Margaretta M. Lovell

A criminal is being beaten : the politics of punishment and the history of the body / Michael Meranze
Massacred language : courtroom performance in eighteenth-century Boston / Robert Blair St. George
'Neither male nor female' : Jemima Wilkinson and the politics of gender in post-revolutionary America / Susan Juster
The genders of nationalism : patriotic violence, patriotic sentiment in the performances of Deborah Sampson Gannett / Sandra M. Gustafson.

United States -- New York (State).

E101 .P67 2000