Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Marc André Bernier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, French Literature), Clorinda Donato (California State University, French and Italian), Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarbrücken, Chair of Romance Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication)
Part I: Intercultural Transfers
- A Peculiar Idea of Empire. Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern HistoryGirolamo Imbruglia (University “l’Orientale” in Naples, Humanities and Social Sciences)
- The Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-Expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilij’s 1784 Saggio di Storia AmericanaClorinda Donato
- Imagining the Kingdom of Quito: Reading History and National Identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del Reino de QuitoEileen Willingham (Independent Scholar, Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication)
- For Love of Patria: Locating Self and Nation in Clavijero's Rendition of the Conquest of MexicoBeatriz de Alba-Koch (University of Victoria, Latin American Studies)
- Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer’s History of the Abipones in a (post)modern perspectiveHans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
- From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New SpainPerla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana, History)
- France’s Colonial Strategy of Cultural AssimilationSara E. Melzer (University of California, French and Francophone Studies)
Part II: Intellectual Disputes
- José Basílio da Gama’s epic poem O Uraguay (1769): an intellectual dispute about the Jesuit state of ParaguayWiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, ModernForeign Languages and Literatures)
- Changing Perspectives: The Other, the Self, the In-Between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth CenturyUte Fendler (University of Bayreuth, Francophone Literature, Cultures and Media in Africa)
- East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish AmericaKaren Stolley (Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese)
- “Ils estoient si subjects à leur bouche”: la Relation de 1616 face à la topique antijésuiteIsabelle Lachance (l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Research Chair inRhetoric)
- Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l’observateur européen face au monde indigèneKlaus-Dieter Ertler (University of Graz, Roman Literature)
- Une rhétorique du silence: l’œuvre jésuite dans la Description de la Louisiane du récollet Louis HennepinCatherine Broué(University of Quebec, Literature)
Part III: Textualities
- L’héritage de José de AcostaPierre Berthiaume (University of Ottawa, Professor Emeritus)
- La Nouvelle-France dans l’imaginaire jésuite: terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste?Marie-Christine Pioffet (York University, French Studies)
- The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco IllustratedMargaret R. Ewalt (Wake Forest University, Spanish)
- Pierre Pelleprat’s Accounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655)Réal Ouellet (Université Laval, Professor Emeritus) and Marc André Bernier
- Dans le sillage du père Joseph-François Lafitau: les Avantures de Claude Le BeauAndréanne Vallée (Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, French)
Postface
- De l’usage de la comparaison dans les écrits des Jésuites sur les AmériquesHans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
List of Contributors
Index