Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas Empires, Texts, Identities

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.<br/><br/><i>Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas</i> facilitates a cross-disciplinary, intrahemispheric, and Atlantic comparison of early settlers'' colonialism and creole elites'' relation to both indigenous peoples and imperial regimes. Contributors explore literatures written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English to identify creole responses to such concepts as communal identity, local patriotism, nationalism, and literary expression. <br/><br/>The essays take the reader from the first debates about cultural differences that underpinned European ideologies of conquest to the transposition of European li