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A01=Margarita Zamora
appropriation
authenticity
Author_Margarita Zamora
authority
cartography
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christopher columbus
colonialism
columbus
destination
discovery
discovery of the americas
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expeditions
exploration
ferdinand
gender
ideology
indigenous peoples
isabela
journey
las casas
latin america
latin american history
latin american literature and culture series
libro copiador
literary letters
native americans
native peoples
pilgrimage
testimony
the crown
the new world
travel narratives
world history
Product details
- ISBN 9780520082977
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jun 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Margarita Zamora is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios Reales de los Incas (1988).
