Eyda M. Merediz is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER ONE Medieval Quests: The West Meets the Savage
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1. Land of Infidels: Popes, Kings, and Laws
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2. Navigators and Chroniclers: Representations of the Canary Islander
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3. The Canary Islands and the New World: Mutual Influences
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CHAPTER TWO Between Narration and Digression: Alonso de Espinosa and the Historiography of the Canary Islands
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1. The Monastery and the Mission: Dominican Intellectual Training
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2. The Writing of History: Dilemmas, Debates, and Miracles
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3. Espinosa Reads Las Casas: The Source and the Gaze
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4. The Conquest of Tenerife Revisited: Las Casas Returns
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CHAPTER THREE An Epic Revision of History: Antonio de Viana and his Answer to "the Carelessness with Which the Truth of History Was Investigated"
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1. On the Trail of Espinosa: The Canaries Are Not America
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2. Dialoguing with Ercilla: Is the Epic from Mars or from Venus?
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3. When Ideological Telos Meets Literary Convention
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CHAPTER FOUR History and Utopia: Lope de Vega's Remaking of the Canary Islands and the Spanish Enterprise in America
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1. The History Play: Old and New Readings
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2. Lope de Vega and the New World: A Critical Overview
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3. Lope's comedian and the History of the Canary Islands
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4. The Image of Otherness: Cultural Allegiances
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5. Gold and Evil: The Wealth Fallacy
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6. History and Utopia: Concluding Remarks
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AFTERWORD
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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