Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Interrogating America
6. Postcolonial Theory And Early America: An Approach From The Caribbean 33
7. What's Colonial About Colonial America? 49
8. Part Two: Translation And Transculturation
9. Dissent And Difference
10. The Native Translator As Critic: A Nahua Playwright's Interpretive Practice 73
11. Dissent And The Frontier Of Translation: Roger Williams's A Key Into The Language Of America 88
12. Colonial Visions
13. The Inca's Witches: Gender And The Cultural Work Of Colonization In Seventeenth-Century Peru 109
14. Mestizo Dreams: Transculturation And Heterogeneity In Inca Garcilaso De La Vega 131
15. Puritanism's Progress
16. From "Religion And Society" To Practices: The New Religious History 148
17. What Did Christianity Do For Joseph Johnson? A Mohegan Preacher And His Community 160
18. Nation And Race
19. War, The State, And Religious Norms In "Coromantee" Thought: The Ideology Of An African American Nation 181
20. Consolidating National Masculinity: Scientific Discourse And Race In The Post-Revolutionary United States 201
21. Part Three: Shaping Subjectivities
22. Secret Selves, Credible Personas: The Problematics Of Trust And Public Display In The Writing Of Eighteenth- Century Philadelphia Merchants 219
23. Black Gothic: The Shadowy Origins Of The American Bourgeoisie 243
24. Bodies Of Illusion: Portraits, People, And The Construction Of Memory 270
25. A Criminal Is Being Beaten: The Politics Of Punishment And The History Of The Body 302
26. Part Four: Oral Performance, Personal Power
27. Massacred Language: Courtroom Performance In Eighteenth-Century Boston 327
28. "Neither Male Nor Female": Jemima Wilkinson And The Politics Of Gender In Post-Revolutionary America 357
29. The Genders Of Nationalism: Patriotic Violence, Patriotic Sentiment In The Performances Of Deborah Sampson Gannett 380
30. Contributors 401
31. Index 405