When the Europeans first arrived in America, they had a number of preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes about what life in the New World would be like. This book examines the different visions and representations of America conveyed in...
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When the Europeans first arrived in America, they had a number of preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes about what life in the New World would be like. This book examines the different visions and representations of America conveyed in the writings of Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim leader William Bradford, taking both writers within their respective literary and historical contexts. . Anthologies of American literature have consistently ignored Spanish-language achievements on the grounds of a restrictive interpretation of American literature base
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Cover-Page; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Notes; 1 Introduction; Literary context; Notes; 2 Competing Visions of America; Notes; 3 Describing an Unknown Land; Notes; 4 America in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios; Notes; 5 America in Of Plymouth Plantation; Notes; 6 Cabeza de Vaca and Bradford as Eyewitnesses and Historians; Notes; Conclusions; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Index;