Puritan conquistadors : Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700
This book argues that the striking resemblances in Spanish and Puritan discourses of colonization as "exorcism" and as spiritual gardening point to a common Atlantic history. The book demonstrates that a wider Pan-American perspective can upset the most cherished national narratives of the United States, for it maintains that the Puritan colonization of New England was as much a chivalric, crusading act of Reconquista (against the Devil) as was the Spanish conquest
Print Book, English, 2006
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780804742795, 9780804742801, 0804742790, 0804742804
64594248
The satanic epic. The Iberian satanic epic
The satanic epic in the Catholic Atlantic
The Elizabethan satanic epic
The Puritan satanic epic in America
The Spanish conquest as hell
Our "Elizabethan" Lady of Guadalupe
Iberian traditions in Milton's Paradise Lost
The structure of a shared demonological discourse. Satan's tyranny
Cannibalism
Collective harassment and Amerindian emasculation
The geographical mobility of demons : the geopolitics of evil
Satan : God's ape in America
Satan and typology : the Aztecs' history as the inverted mirror-image of the Israelites'
Driving out demons with the cross
Anglican crosses/puritan bibles
Demonology and nature. Storms : the tempest
Storms : Iberian traditions
Plants
Monsters
Satanic snakes
Catholic providence in nature
Protestant providence in nature
America as false paradise
Colonization as spiritual gardening. Gardening as type and metaphor
Flowers and patriotic anxieties in Spanish America
Puritan "plantations"
Toward a "Pan-American" Atlantic
Bolton's legacy
The national and the global
The comparative and the transnational
Sudden divergence
Could the Spanish America ever be normative?
The exclusionary force of the narrative of "Western Civilization"
Historiographical barricades
Ideaswhere?
Should Latin Americans embrace the Atlantic?
Away from tragic narratives