New Book Co-edited by Bauer Published

University of North Carolina Press has published Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities, edited by Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland) and José Antonio Mazzotti (Tufts University).

The book, published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia, “explores literatures written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English to identify creole responses to such concepts as communal identity, local patriotism, nationalism, and literary expression.”

The volume includes eighteen essays from a distinguished and diverse array of scholars. Covering the colonial period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the authors "investigate the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas."

Contributors include Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (City University of New York), Lúcia Helena Costigan (Ohio State), Jim Egan (Brown University), Sandra M. Gustafson (University of Notre Dame), Carlos Jáuregui (Vanderbilt University),  Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (University of Pennsylvania), Stephanie Merrim (Brown University), Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan), Luis Fernando Restrepo (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), Jeffrey H. Richards (Old Dominion University), Kathleen Ross (New York University), David S. Shields (University of South Carolina), Teresa A. Toulouse (Tulane University), Lisa Voigt (University of Chicago), and Jerry M. Williams (West Chester University).

Ivy Schweitzer calls Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas “rigorously researched and strongly interdisciplinary” and Karen Ordahl Kupperman says “these essays capture the emerging ambivalent claims of elite creole identities in the early modern Americas.”

Read more about Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas here.