Love, Colonial Style
2001; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 29; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/rah.2001.0080
ISSN1080-6628
Autores Tópico(s)American History and Culture
ResumoTo those who may have missed the remarkable providences in recent historiography, it is time to declare that New England has at last rejoined colonial North America. Once upon a time, New England declared itself the pure-bred norm from which the vast majority of other North American experiences deviated--in its very setting of the standard proclaiming its aloofness from less pristine areas of the continent. Thirty years ago, New England's distinctiveness was historiographically reinforced by the "Christian Utopian Closed Corporate Community" model of English people who were willfully oblivious to the Atlantic world and to the Native people around them. 1 And, more recently, scholars ranging from Jack Greene to Michael Zuckerman have pronounced New England so far outside the diverse mainstream of early American development as to be virtually irrelevant to any larger story. 2 But inward-turning Dedham is no longer New England. The region is finding its place in the paradigm of racialized, gendered, exploitative imperial multiplicity that defines--if something so motley can define--our current understanding of colonial North America. 3
Referência(s)