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  1. Early visions and representations of America
    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios and William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
    Author: Gómez-Galisteo, M. Carmen
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, New York [u.a.]

    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... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781441103949; 9781283848602
    Subjects: Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvaro; Bradford, William; Amerikabild;
    Scope: Online-Ressource (XVI, 196 S.)
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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;