When the Europeans first arrived in America, they had a number of
preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes about what life
in the New World would be like. This book examines the different
visions and representations of America conveyed in the writings of
Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim
leader William Bradford, taking both writers within their
respective literary and historical contexts. Anthologies of
American literature have consistently ignored Spanish-language
achievements on the grounds of a restrictive interpretation of
American literature based on linguistic boundaries. Consequently,
Spanish-language texts such as Cabeza de Vaca's or the account by
the Hidalgo de Elvas, to name but two examples, have been
marginalized in the narrative of American literary history. In
seeking to redress this neglect, Galisteo contributes to
scholarship which seeks to analyze Early America as a whole,
including not only Anglo American perspectives but also the Spanish
American aspect of the colonization process.
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