The Armature of Conquest

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ISBN: 9780804724708 | 0804724709
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/1/1995

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Focusing on certain key firsthand narratives of the discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World, the author views 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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Introduction	p. 1
The Discourse of Mythification	p. 7
Christopher Columbus and the Definition of America as Booty	p. 9
Images of an Unknown World	p. 9
A Real World Disregarded	p. 20
The Instrumentalization of Reality	p. 37
Hernan Cortes and the Creation of the Model Conqueror	p. 50
The Context of a Rebellion	p. 50
The Narrative Structures of a Fictional Justification	p. 63
The Creation of a Model	p. 80
Demythification and Questioning	p. 101
From Failure to Demythification	p. 103
A Collective Penchant for Myth	p. 103
The Narrative Discourse of Failure	p. 116
Demythification and Criticism in the Naufragios	p. 129
The Models in Crisis	p. 153
The Search for El Dorado	p. 153
From Failure to Rebellion	p. 168
Rebel and Madman: The Pilgrim	p. 188
A Literary Expression of the Unfolding of a New Consciousness	p. 205
Alonso de Ercilla and the Development of a Spanish American Consciousness	p. 207
Characterization of the Native American: Dehumanization and Mythification	p. 207
Structures of Integration	p. 230
A Literary Expression of a New Consciousness	p. 246
Notes	p. 279
Index	p. 313
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