The Literatures of Colonial America An Anthology [Paperback]

Compiled in response to emerging transnational perspectives in American Studies, this comprehensive and imaginative anthology brings together a rich variety of works of colonial literature from across the Americas, covering the period from first contact, through to settlement and the emergence of national identities, with an emphasis on the American Revolutionary period.Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Exploration and Contact to 1600:.

Introduction.

Before Columbus: Native American Cultures:.

The Pre-Columbian World.

The Origin Myth of Acoma. ..

From The Winnebago Trickster Cycle.

The Origin of Stories (Seneca).

Pre-Columbian Literatures of the QuichU.

Anonymous QuichU Author (Sixteenth Century): Popol Vuh.

Excerpts from the Mayan Chilam Balam.

New World Encounters:.

Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506):.

From The Letter of Columbus on the Discovery of America . . .

BartolomU De Las Casas (1474 - 1566):.

From The History on the Indies:.

Book I, Chapter XXXVII: On the Natural Law on God in His World . ..

Book I, Chapter XL: Of the Island which Lay Before Them, and its People.

Book III, Chapter LXXVIII: Of the Labours of the Indians in Cuba.

Pero Vaz de Caminha (1467? - 1520? ):.

From The Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha to King Manuel I, May 1, 1500.

Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 - 1528):.

The Voyage of Verrazzano, Florentine Noble in the Service on Francois I, King of France, 1524.

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