What is it about?
This essay is designed to orient students and researchers of early British America to important points of connection with, and differences from, colonial Spanish and Portuguese America. It analyzes how four main comparative methods -- generic, genetic, appositional, and meditative -- relate to the early literatures and histories of the Americas, as evidenced through recent scholarship from and about North America, Brazil, Spanish-speaking Latin America, and the extended Caribbean region.
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Why is it important?
The other essays in the section focus on connections with Indigenous communities, the Caribbean, and the Pacific world, and the rest of the volume offers a how-to approach to major themes and genres: how to read an early American poem, how to understand early American democracy, and the like.
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This page is a summary of: Colonial Latin America, November 2021, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/9781108878623.014.
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