Reading Columbus

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Margarita Zamora

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Latin American Literature and Culture

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Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters on the discovery of the Americas to Isabella and Ferdinand. Focusing 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' destination, the authenticity and authority of the texts attributed to him, Las Casas' editorial role and Columbus' view of the Indians. Exploring the ways in which the first images of America as seen through European eyes both represented and helped shape the discovery, this study maps the inception and growth of a discourse that was to dominate the colonization of the New World.

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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).

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June 29th, 1993

Author

Margarita Zamora

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

264

Series

Latin American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

156x234x15

ISBN-13

9780520082977

Product ID

7577309

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