Possible Pasts
Becoming Colonial in Early America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3504767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Waldstreicher |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 977 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 2000 |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2674507 |
| OpenAlex | W2029956557 |
| Language | EN |
Possible Pasts represents a landmark in American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial.Rather than define in terms of conventional geographical, chronological, or subdisciplinary boundaries, their essays span landscapes from New England to Peru, time periods from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, and topics from religion to race and novels to nationalism. In his introduction Robert Blair St. George offers an overview of the genealogy of ideas and key terms appearing in the book.Part I, Interrogating America, then challenges readers to rethink the meaning of early America and its relation to postcolonial theory. In Part II, Translation and Transculturation, essays explore how both Europeans and native peoples viewed such concepts as dissent, witchcraft, family piety, and race. The construction of individual identity and agency in Philadelphia is the focus of Part III, Shaping Subjectivities. Finally, Part IV, Oral Performance and Personal Power, considers the ways in which political authority and gendered resistance were established in America
Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Latin American and Latino Studies
Making Messages Private
Context in Context
Putting on “the Helmet of Salvation” and Wielding “the Sword of the Spirit”
Reading the Posthuman Backwards
Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America
Dying Saints, Vanishing Savages
Financial professionals and the formation of proprietarian ideology
Widow Pratt’s Possessions
A Very Promising Appearance
Native American Popular Religion in New England’s Old Colony, 1670–1770
Religious Exceptionalism and American Literary History
What Is My Prospects?”
Anti-Foundational Founders
Histories of Democracy and Empire
Locating Setter Colonies in the Postcolonial Imaginary
Sentimental Visions of Empire in Eighteenth‐Century Studies
By custom and devotion to the Passion of Christ our lord”
Correspondence and Commitment
Becoming a Correspondent
The Revolutionary Transformation of American Merchant Networks
Precipitous Sensations
Atlantic History and the Literary Turn
Enslaved rebels fight for freedom
Reconsidering Empire
Tending to Edify, Astonish, and Instruct
La catégorie ' études coloniales ' est-elle indispensable
Your poor boy no father no mother
The Ultimate Sin
Nature's Currency
Writing Women's History Through the Revolution
Independence and Interdependence
Revolution in the Quarterly? A Historiographical Analysis
Putting the Lydia to Sea
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