{"id":18202,"date":"2011-11-15T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18202"},"modified":"2011-11-15T03:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:53:05","slug":"narratives-of-astonishment-miscegenation-in-new-world-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18202","title":{"rendered":"Narratives of astonishment: Miscegenation in New World literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1911\/16710\" target=\"_blank\">Narratives of astonishment: Miscegenation in New World literature<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rice University<br \/>\n1994<br \/>\n235 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Wesley Buass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY<\/p>\n<p>Through readings of a variety of literary and historical narratives from throughout the Americas dating from the 16th century to the present, I show that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>, its sudden and disrupting revelation in these narratives serving as the catalyst for utopian and\/or apocalyptic rhetoric, becomes a trope for New World cultural identity (Utopia and Apocalypse themselves being crucial ideas for this hemisphere). I call by the name &#8220;Astonishment&#8221; the resulting space created by the sudden revelation of miscegenation in these narratives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abstract<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledgements<\/li>\n<li>Prologue. Re-reading Columbus&#8217;s (Dis)Course: Toward a Reading of New World Literature<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Delta Autumn&#8221; and<em> Tenda dos milagres<\/em>: Toward a Theory of Astonishment<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Regions beyond right knowing&#8221;: Cabeza de Vaca&#8217;s Search for<em> a<\/em> Language<\/li>\n<li>\u00bfQuienes somos?: Labyrinths of Blood in de la Vega, Faulkner, and Paz<\/li>\n<li>Gonzalo Guerrero&#8217;s Children: A Survey of Narratives of Astonishment<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Works Cited and Consulted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the first 30 pages <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.rice.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1911\/16710\/9514157.PDF?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narratives of astonishment: Miscegenation in New World literature Rice University 1994 235 pages John Wesley Buass A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Through readings of a variety of literary and historical narratives from throughout the Americas dating from the 16th century to the present, I show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,1196,8],"tags":[8269,8268,8267,3815],"class_list":["post-18202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertations","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-john-buass","tag-john-w-buass","tag-john-wesley-buass","tag-rice-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}