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 History
Girolamo 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 Americana
Clorinda Donato - 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) - 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) - Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Martin Dobrizhoffer’s History of the Abipones in a (post)modern perspective
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink - From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
Perla Chinchilla Pawling (Universidad Iberoamericana, History) - France’s Colonial Strategy of Cultural Assimilation
Sara 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 Paraguay
Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Modern
Foreign Languages and Literatures) - 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) - East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America
Karen Stolley (Emory University, Spanish and Portuguese) - “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) - Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l’observateur européen face au monde indigène
Klaus-Dieter Ertler (University of Graz, Roman Literature) - 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
- L’héritage de José de Acosta
Pierre 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 Illustrated
Margaret 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 Beau
Andréanne Vallée (Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie, French)
Postface
- De l’usage de la comparaison dans les écrits des Jésuites sur les Amériques
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
List of Contributors
Index