%0 Journal Article 
%A Hallock, Thomas
%T Think globally, dig locally: pedagogy and the archive in early Florida literature
%D 2010
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/8347
%X As the field of early American literature absorbs the influences of trans-Atlantic
and hemispheric models, border zones such as La Florida provide new opportunities for
research and classroom study. Given this region’s complicated history, however, the
literary history is very difficult to reconstruct. Early descriptions of Florida were written
in Spanish, French, Portuguese, English, Latin, German, and native languages, and they
took any number of forms, including histories, relaciones, fiction, epic poems, captivity
and slave accounts, petitions, diaries, and natural histories. What holds together this
diverse body of works? Given the range of materials, one pedagogical approach is to
focus on the process of anthologizing itself. Florida offers a test case by which students
may replicate the tasks that colonial authors, printers, editors, and anthologists undertook
themselves. It provides a test site for micro-histories that, if completed alongside other
projects, may be used to redraw the map of colonial American studies.

%K Critical article
%K Ensayo
%K Florida
%K Historiography
%K Hemispheric studies
%K Transatlantic studies
%K Pedagogy
%K Colonial literature
%K Anthologies
%K La Florida
%K Historiografía
%K Estudios hemisféricos
%K Estudios transatlánticos
%K Literatura colonial
%K Antologías
%K Humanidades
%K Historia de América
%K America-History
%K Arte
%K Art
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala