These articles offer critical approaches to the literary and historical record of European "discovery" of the New World and expansion around the globe, adding an important dimension to Renaissance, colonial, and postcolonial studies.

Rolena Adorno, "The Negotiation of Fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Nauftagios," Winter 1991, 33: 163-99.

Siraj Ahmed, "The Theater of the Civilized Self: Edmund Burke and the East India Trials," Spring 2002, 78: 28-55.

Herman L. Bennett, "'Sons of Adam': Text, Context, and the Early Modern African Subject," Fall 2005, 92: 16-41.

Alex Calder, "'The Thrice Mysterious Taboo': Melville's Typee and the Perception of Culture," Summer 1999, 67: 27-43.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for 'Indian' Pasts?" Winter 1992, 37: 1-26.

Inga Clendinnen, "'Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty': Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico," Winter 1991, 33: 65-100.

David Damrosch, "The Aesthetics of Conquest: Aztec Poetry Before and After Cortés," Winter 1991, 33: 101-20.

Michel de Certeau, "Travel Narratives of the French to Brazil: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries" (trans. Katharine Streip), Winter 1991, 33: 221-26.

Nicholas B. Dirks, "Castes of Mind," Winter 1992, 37: 56-78.

Mary C. Fuller, "Ralegh's Fugitive Gold: Reference and Deferral in The Discoverie of Guiana," Winter 1991, 33: 42-64.

Luce Giard, "Epilogue: Michel de Certeau's Heterology and the New World" (trans. Katharine Streip), Winter 1991, 33: 212-21.

Stephen Greenblatt, ed., The New World: Essays in Memory of Michel de Certeau, special issue, Winter 1991, number 33.

Darcy Grimaldo Grisby, "Rumor, Contagion, and Colonization in Gros's Plague-Stricken of Jaffa (1804)," Summer 1995, 51: 1-46.

Richard Halpern, "Shakespeare in the Tropics: From High Modernism to New Historicism," Winter 1994, 45: 1-25.

Geoffrey Galt Harpham, "Abroad Only by a Fiction: Creation, Irony, and Necessity in Conrad's The Secret Agent," Winter 1992, 37: 79-103.

Mitsuro Hashimoto, "Collision at Namamugi" (trans. Betsey Scheiner), Spring 1987, 18: 69-90. 

James Holstun, "John Eliot's Empirical Millenarianism," Fall 1983, 4: 128-53.

Imperial Fantasies and Postcolonial Histories, special issue, Winter 1992, number 37.

Jeffrey Knapp, "Elizabethan Tobacco," Winter 1988, 21: 27-66.

Deanna K. Kreisel, "Wolf Children and Automata: Bestiality and Boredom at Home and Abroad," Fall 2006, 96: 21-47.

Paul Landau, "The Illumination of Christ in the Kalahari Desert," Winter 1994, 45: 26-40.

Frank Lestringant, "The Philosopher's Breviary: Jean de Léry in the Enlightenment" (trans. Katherine Streip), Winter 1991, 33: 200-211.