The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589
by Beatriz Pastor Bodmer, Bodmer Beatriz
"Of all the books inspired by the Columbian quincentenary, this is easily one of the most challenging. Bodmer uses early Spanish chronicles to take the reader on a journey of exploration. . . . A richly detailed analytical history of the gradual awakening of a critical consciousness concerning accepted versions of the discovery and conquest of America."—Canadian Journal of History
"A quite splendid book."—Journal of Latin American Studies
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Focusing on certain key firsthand narratives of the discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World, the authors view various journals, letters, and other documents not merely as narratives of facts and events but as literary expressions of the dynamics of the writer's experience.
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"Of all the books inspired by the Columbian quincentenary, this is easily one of the most challenging. Bodmer uses early Spanish chronicles to take the reader on a journey of exploration. . . . A richly detailed analytical history of the gradual awakening of a critical consciousness concerning accepted versions of the discovery and conquest of America."-Canadian Journal of History "A quite splendid book."-Journal of Latin American Studies
Table of Contents
Introduction; Part I. The Discourse of Mythification; 1. Christopher Columbus and the definition of America as booty; 2. Hern n Cortes and the creation of the model conqueror; Part II. Demythification and Questioning: 3. From failure to demythification; 4. The models in crisis; Part III. A Literary Expression of the Unfolding of a New Consciousness: 5. Alonso de Ercilla and the development of a Spanish American Consciousness; Notes; Index.
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"Of all the books inspired by the Columbian quincentenary, this is easily one of the most challenging. Bodmer uses early Spanish chronicles to take the reader on a journey of exploration... A richly detailed analytical history of the gradual awakening of a critical consciousness concerning accepted versions of the discovery and conquest of America." - Canadian Journal of History "A quite splendid book." - Journal of Latin American Studies
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Of all the books inspired by the Columbian quincentenary, this is easily one of the most challenging. Bodmer uses early Spanish chronicles to take the reader on a journey of exploration. . . . A richly detailed analytical history of the gradual awakening of a critical consciousness concerning accepted versions of the discovery and conquest of America."
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