New world encounters /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1993.
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| Series: | Representations books ;
6 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=19222 |
Table of Contents:
- Christopher Columbus's "Letter to the Sovereigns": announcing the discovery / Margarita Zamora
- "Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty": Cortes and the conquest of Mexico / Inga Clendinnen
- The negotiation of fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios / Rolena Adorno
- Ius et Factum: text and experience in the writings of Bartolome de Las Casas / Anthony Pagden
- Demons, imagination, and the Incas / Sabine MacCormack
- The philosopher's breviary: Jean de Lery in the enlightenment / Frank Lestringant
- The aesthetics of conquest: Aztec poetry before and after Cortes / David Damrosch
- Dancing and the sacred in the Andes: from the Taqui-Oncoy to Rasu-Niti / Sara Castro-Klaren
- The work of gender in the discourse of discovery / Louis Montrose
- Ralegh's fugitive gold: reference and deferral in The Discoverie of Guiana / Mary C. Fuller
- Voices of resistance: the epic curse and Camoes's Adamastor / David Quint
- Elizabethan tobacco / Jeffrey Knapp
- Epilogue: Michel de Certeau's heterology and the new world / Luce Giard
- Travel narratives of the French to Brazil: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Michel De Certeau.