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==Literature==

==Literature==

Colonial American literature is perhaps the most vibrant field in American literary studies today. In the last decade an explosion of anthologies designed to make widely available a broad range of non-canonical writings produced in and about Great Britain's colonies in the Western hemisphere has provided teachers and scholars with important new tools. The explosion has been driven partly by the identity-based recuperation movements of the 1970s and 1980s, partly by a new awareness of the importance of texts circulated in manuscript or newspapers rather than in book form, and partly by dissatisfaction with the predominant Puritan origins narrative and a swelling interest in transnationalism. New anthologies include Myra Jehlen and Michael Warner's ''The English Literatures of America, 1580–1800'' (Routledge, 1996), Vincent Carretta's ''Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century'' (Lexington, Ky., 1996), Sharon M. Harris's ''Early American Women Writers to 1800'' (Oxford, 1996), and ''Thomas W. Krise's Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657–1777'' (Chicago, 1999), Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer, ''The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology'' (Oxford, 2001) Carla Muford's ''Early American Writings'' (Oxford 2002), and Susan Castillo's, ''Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500–1786: Performing America'' (Routledge, 2006). Add in the University of Massachusetts Press series on native writers and scholars have made readily available a vast array of once obscure English-language works. Some of these new volumes represent an effort by colonialists to catch up to the rest of the field of Americanist scholarship, providing the pre-literary history to contemporary Caribbean or African American literature. In an important sense, however, colonialists occupy a unique position among Americanists. At a moment when many scholars are rejecting nationalist narratives of literary history, which they view as the intellectual equivalent of isolationism in a world increasingly committed to globalization, students of colonial American literature rightly claim a pre-national vantage point. A transnational approach to colonial literature has the attractive features of being both intellectually sound and trendy.<ref>Sandra M. Gustafson, "The Americas in Writing," ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 2003 60(1): 207-213. ISSN: 0043-5597   

Colonial American literature is perhaps the most vibrant field in American literary studies today. In the last decade an explosion of anthologies designed to make widely available a broad range of non-canonical writings produced in and about Great Britain's colonies in the Western hemisphere has provided teachers and scholars with important new tools. The explosion has been driven partly by the identity-based recuperation movements of the 1970s and 1980s, partly by a new awareness of the importance of texts circulated in manuscript or newspapers rather than in book form, and partly by dissatisfaction with the predominant Puritan origins narrative and a swelling interest in transnationalism. New anthologies include Myra Jehlen and Michael Warner's ''The English Literatures of America, 1580–1800'' (Routledge, 1996), Vincent Carretta's ''Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century'' (Lexington, Ky., 1996), Sharon M. Harris's ''Early American Women Writers to 1800'' (Oxford, 1996), and ''Thomas W. Krise's Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657–1777'' (Chicago, 1999), Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer, ''The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology'' (Oxford, 2001) Carla Muford's ''Early American Writings'' (Oxford 2002), and Susan Castillo's, ''Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500–1786: Performing America'' (Routledge, 2006). Add in the University of Massachusetts Press series on native writers and scholars have made readily available a vast array of once obscure English-language works. Some of these new volumes represent an effort by colonialists to catch up to the rest of the field of Americanist scholarship, providing the pre-literary history to contemporary Caribbean or African American literature. In an important sense, however, colonialists occupy a unique position among Americanists. At a moment when many scholars are rejecting nationalist narratives of literary history, which they view as the intellectual equivalent of isolationism in a world increasingly committed to globalization, students of colonial American literature rightly claim a pre-national vantage point. A transnational approach to colonial literature has the attractive features of being both intellectually sound and trendy.<ref>Sandra M. Gustafson, "The Americas in Writing," ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 2003 60(1): 207-213. ISSN: 0043-5597