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The American Columbiad : "discovering" America, inventing the United States / edited by Mario Materassi, Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa Santos ; with contributions from Clara Bartocci ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Materassi, Mario | Santos, Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa | Bartocci, Clara | European Association for American Studies. Biennial conference (1992: Seville)
Language: English Publisher: Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1996.Description: xii, 414p. : ill. ; 24cm.ISBN: 9053834230Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher
Contents:
I, Imagined identities. Mistaken identities: false perceptions and self-fulfilling prophecies / Michael Dorris; II, Columbiads. Christopher Columbus, Limina Americana and global literary culture / W. Boelhower; Columbiads in 18th century European and American literature / Herbert Knust; Columbus in grand opera and epic musical theater / A. Schmitt-v Mühlenfels; The celebration of Columbus in 19th century American art and Washington Irving's Life of Columbus / R.M. Zorzi; III, Discoveries and inventions. The conquistador as improviser and the magic of colonial discourse: Cortés and Hariot / G. Mackenthun; The meaning of wildness in early English accounts of America / Joyce Chaplin; The Indian, the unknown man / C. Bartocci; Uneasy affinities / B. Fleischmann; IV, Worlds old and new. Old and new worlds / C.F. Feest; Scotland and the invention of the USA / Andrew Hook; Voices from the Spanish enlightenment / H.R. Guggisberg; Caribbean culture in the US / Alfred Hunt; V, Encounters and ideologies. Gendered interventions / A. Kessler-Harris; "Encounters" between the Canadian and American labor movements / C. Collomp; Feminism, utopia and the politics of subjectivity / J. Pfaelzer; Hostage to innocence: the captivity melodrama from colonial Massachusetts to contemporary Lebanon / Thomas Grant; VI, Transatlantic images. The presentation of foreigners in the land of immigrants: Chicago world Exhibition / Stephen F. Mills; Encounter: an intellectual concept of Atlanticism in the 1950s / Tity de Vries; Telling the American story to Europe: Alistair Cooke and transatlantic images / Ronald A. Wells; Eva Hoffmanm's immigrant autobiography / J. Durczak; VII, The literary construction of identity. The American question / A. Delbanco; The pastoral of the past and pastorals of the future / Armin P. Frank; The source of Eugene O'Neill's The fountain / B. Ozieblo; America discovered in reverse / D. Pitavy-Souques; The secret of the blue mesa: Willa Cather / A. Lloyd Smith; Constructing a Columbus worth cursing / J. Chametzky; Nabakov's discovery of America / Ellen Pifer.
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A selection of the papers given at the European Association for American Studies Conference in Seville, 1992.

Includes bibl. references and notes.

I, Imagined identities. Mistaken identities: false perceptions and self-fulfilling prophecies / Michael Dorris; II, Columbiads. Christopher Columbus, Limina Americana and global literary culture / W. Boelhower; Columbiads in 18th century European and American literature / Herbert Knust; Columbus in grand opera and epic musical theater / A. Schmitt-v Mühlenfels; The celebration of Columbus in 19th century American art and Washington Irving's Life of Columbus / R.M. Zorzi; III, Discoveries and inventions. The conquistador as improviser and the magic of colonial discourse: Cortés and Hariot / G. Mackenthun; The meaning of wildness in early English accounts of America / Joyce Chaplin; The Indian, the unknown man / C. Bartocci; Uneasy affinities / B. Fleischmann; IV, Worlds old and new. Old and new worlds / C.F. Feest; Scotland and the invention of the USA / Andrew Hook; Voices from the Spanish enlightenment / H.R. Guggisberg; Caribbean culture in the US / Alfred Hunt; V, Encounters and ideologies. Gendered interventions / A. Kessler-Harris; "Encounters" between the Canadian and American labor movements / C. Collomp; Feminism, utopia and the politics of subjectivity / J. Pfaelzer; Hostage to innocence: the captivity melodrama from colonial Massachusetts to contemporary Lebanon / Thomas Grant; VI, Transatlantic images. The presentation of foreigners in the land of immigrants: Chicago world Exhibition / Stephen F. Mills; Encounter: an intellectual concept of Atlanticism in the 1950s / Tity de Vries; Telling the American story to Europe: Alistair Cooke and transatlantic images / Ronald A. Wells; Eva Hoffmanm's immigrant autobiography / J. Durczak; VII, The literary construction of identity. The American question / A. Delbanco; The pastoral of the past and pastorals of the future / Armin P. Frank; The source of Eugene O'Neill's The fountain / B. Ozieblo; America discovered in reverse / D. Pitavy-Souques; The secret of the blue mesa: Willa Cather / A. Lloyd Smith; Constructing a Columbus worth cursing / J. Chametzky; Nabakov's discovery of America / Ellen Pifer.

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