Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : New world encounters / Stephen Greenblatt
  • Christopher Columbus's Letter to the sovereigns : Announcing the discovery / Margarita Zamora
  • Fierce and unnatural cruelty : Cortés and the conquest of México / Inga Clendinnen
  • The Negotiation of fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios / Rolena Adorno
  • Ius et factum : Text and experience in the writings of Bartolomé de las Casas / Anthony Pagden
  • Demons, imagination, and the Incas / Sabine MacCormack
  • The Philosopher's breviary : Jean de Léry in the enlightenment / Frank Lestringant
  • The Aesthetics of conquest : Aztec poetry before and after Cortés / David Damrosch
  • Dancing and the sacred in the Andes : From the taqui-oncoy to rasu-ñiti / Sara Castro-Klarén
  • The Work of gender in the discourse of discovery / Louis Montrose
  • Ralegh's fugitive gold : Reference and deferral in The Discoverie of Guiana / Mary C. Fuller
  • Voices of resistance : The Epic curse and camões's adamastor / David Quint
  • Elizabethan Tobacco / Jeffrey Knapp
  • Epilogue : Michel de Certeau's heterology and the new world / Luce Giard
  • Travel narratives of the French to Brazil : Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Michel de Certeau