Reading Columbus / Margarita Zamora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zamora, Margarita, author.

Series:

Latin American literature and culture (Berkeley, Calif.) ; Volume 9.

Latin American Literature and Culture Series ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Columbus, Christopher--Writing skill.

Columbus, Christopher.

America--Early accounts to 1600--History and criticism.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological implications. Her comprehensive study takes into account the newly discovered "Libro Copiador," which includes previously unknown letters from Columbus to the Crown. Zamora examines those aspects of the texts that have caused the most anxiety and disagreement among scholars--questions concerning Columbus's destination, the authenticity and authority of the texts attributed to him, Las Casas's editorial role, and Columbus's views on the Indians. In doing so she opens up the vast cultural context of the Discovery. Exploring the ways in which the first images of America as seen through European eyes both represented and helped shape the Discovery, she maps the inception and growth of a discourse that was to dominate the colonizing of the New World.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Editions and Translations

Introduction

Reading Columbus

"This present year of 1492"

"All these are the Admiral's exact words"

In the Margins of Columbus

Voyage to Paradise

Gender and Discovery

APPENDIX. Carta a los Reyes de 4 marzo 1493

Letter to the Sovereigns of 4 March 1493

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585079486

058507948X

9780520913943

0520913949

OCLC:

1149396951