Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas: Intercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities

by Marc Andrï Bernier (Editor), Clorinda Donato (Editor), Hans-Jïrgen Lïsebrink (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487549770
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	10/03/2022
Series:	UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series , #20
Pages:	476
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marc André Bernier is the Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric at l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.


Clorinda Donato is a professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, and director of the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies.


Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink is a senior professor in the Department of Romance Literatures, Languages, and Cultures at Saarland University and co-director (with Susanne Greilich) of a research project on the translation of eighteenth-century encyclopedias funded by the DFG (German Research Council).

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

1. A Peculiar Idea of Empire. Missions and Missionaries of the Society of Jesus in Early Modern History
   Girolamo Imbruglia (University “l’Orientale” in Naples, Humanities and Social Sciences)
2. The Politics of Writing, Translating, and Publishing. New World Histories in Post-Expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilij’s 1784 Saggio di Storia Americana
   Clorinda Donato
3. Imagining the Kingdom of Quito: Reading History and National Identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del Reino de Quito
   Eileen Willingham (Independent Scholar, Languages and Cross-Cultural Communication)
4. For Love of Patria: Locating Self and Nation in Clavijero's Rendition of the Conquest of Mexico
   Beatriz de Alba-Koch (University of Victoria, Latin American Studies)
5. Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer’s History of the Abipones in a (post)modern perspective
   Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
6. From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
   Perla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana, History)
7. France’s Colonial Strategy of Cultural Assimilation
   Sara E. Melzer (University of California, French and Francophone Studies)

Part II: Intellectual Disputes

1. José Basílio da Gama’s epic poem O Uraguay (1769): an intellectual dispute about the Jesuit state of Paraguay
   Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Modern
   Foreign Languages and Literatures)
2. Changing Perspectives: The Other, the Self, the In-Between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth Century
   Ute Fendler (University of Bayreuth, Francophone Literature, Cultures and Media in Africa)
3. East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America
   Karen Stolley (Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese)
4. “Ils estoient si subjects à leur bouche”: la Relation de 1616 face à la topique antijésuite
   Isabelle Lachance (l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Research Chair in
   Rhetoric)
5. Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l’observateur européen face au monde indigène
   Klaus-Dieter Ertler (University of Graz, Roman Literature)
6. Une rhétorique du silence: l’œuvre jésuite dans la Description de la Louisiane du récollet Louis Hennepin
   Catherine Broué(University of Quebec, Literature)

Part III: Textualities

1. L’héritage de José de Acosta
   Pierre Berthiaume (University of Ottawa, Professor Emeritus)
2. La Nouvelle-France dans l’imaginaire jésuite: terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste?
   Marie-Christine Pioffet (York University, French Studies)
3. The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Illustrated
   Margaret R. Ewalt (Wake Forest University, Spanish)
4. 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
5. Dans le sillage du père Joseph-François Lafitau: les Avantures de Claude Le Beau
   Andréanne Vallée (Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, French)

Postface

1. De l’usage de la comparaison dans les écrits des Jésuites sur les Amériques
   Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

List of Contributors

Index

What People are Saying About This

Andreas Motsch

“Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas constitutes a significant and important contribution to research in a dynamic field of study that is currently undergoing an intense scholarly renewal. The comparative angle, the theoretical contributions, the focus on the complex and lesser-known eighteenth century, and the prominent role given to the impact of the expulsion of the Jesuits make this an outstanding collection.”

Editorial Reviews

'This book will be useful for scholars willing to know more about the role of American Jesuits at the turn to modernity... It will stimulate further studies about the relationship of American Jesuits with the dissemination of knowledge they produced.'

The Sixteenth Century Journal vol 47:04:2016 - Pablo Abascal Sherwll Raull

"This volume will be incredibly useful for scholars wanting to delve deeper into understanding the very nature of Jesuit writings and their significance at the dawn of modernity. Using a comparative approach, Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas offers eighteen well-presented essays that lay the essential groundwork for a field of study undergoing a dramatic renewal."

Dalhousie French Studies - Eileen M. Angelini

"This volume is indeed an important contribution in the field of Jesuit studies... "

Journal of Early Modern History 22

‘This is an outstanding contribution, one that focuses primarily on the literary and philosophical nature of Enlightenment period Jesuit accounts of America.’

Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:04:2014 - Sabine Hyland