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Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus.
The legacy of Columbus's discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical investigation. Columbus himself continues to be a cipher like the signature he crafted for himself, a signature no one has been able to decode. What is certain, however, is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1992.
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| Colección: | Hispanic issues.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Introduction: The Construction of a Colonial Imaginary: Columbus's Signature; Chapter 1 Word and Mirror: Presages of the Encounter; Chapter 2 De Bry's Las Casas; Chapter 3 (Re)discovering Aztec Images; Chapter 4 Fantastic Tales and Chronicles of the Indies; Chapter 5 Reading in the Margins of Columbus; Chapter 6 To Read Is to Misread, To Write Is to Miswrite: Las Casas as Transcriber; Chapter 7 Loving Columbus; Chapter 8 Fray Ramón Pané, Discoverer of the Taíno People.
- Chapter 9 Colonial Writing and Indigenous Discourse in Ramón Pané's Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indiosChapter 10 When Speaking Was Not Good Enough: Illiterates, Barbarians, Savages, and Cannibals; Chapter 11 Colonial Reform or Utopia? Guaman Poma's Empire of the Four Parts of the World; Chapter 12 Amerindian Image and Utopian Project: Motolinía and Millenarian Discourse; Chapter 13 The Place of the Translator in the Discourses of Conquest: Hernán Cortés's Cartas de relación and Roland Joffé's The Mission; Ch.