A Twice-told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film

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Santiago Juan-Navarro, Theodore Robert Young
University of Delaware Press, 2001 - 301 páginas
Essays on Iberian views of the age of conquest through literature and cinema

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Página 104 - Licence my roaving hands, and let them go, / Before, behind, between, above, below. / O my America! my new-found-land, / My kingdome, safeliest when with one man man'd, / My Myne of precious stones, My Emperie, / How blest am I in this discovering thee!
Página 236 - The Admiral went on shore in the armed boat, and Martin Alonso Pinzon and Vicente Yanez, his brother, who was captain of the Nina. The Admiral took the royal standard, and the captains went with two banners of the green cross, which the Admiral took in all the ships as a sign, with an F and
Página 237 - some red caps and glass beads to put round their necks, and many other things of little value. They came to the ship's boats afterward, where we were, swimming and bringing us parrots, cotton threads in skeins, darts—what they had, with good will.
Página 237 - came to the ship's boats where we were, swimming and bringing us parrots, cotton threads in skeins, darts, and many other things; and we exchanged them for other things that we gave them, such as glass beads and small bells. In fine, they took all, and gave what they had with good will.
Página 231 - the number run, because if the voyage was of long duration, the people would not be so terrified and disheartened. In the night he made 120 miles, at the rate of 12 miles an hour, which are 30 leagues
Página 42 - Historiography (that is, 'history' and 'writing') bears within its own name the paradox—almost an oxymoron—of a relation established between two antinomic terms, between the real and discourse. Its task is one of connecting them and, at the point where this link cannot be imagined, of working as if the two were being joined
Página 238 - It appeared to me to be a race of people very poor in everything. They go as naked as when their mothers bore them, and so do the women, although I did not see more than one young girl. All I saw were youths, none more than thirty years of age. They are very well made, with very handsome bodies, and very good countenances
Página 105 - Never again may mortal men hope to recapture the amazement, the wonder, the delight of those October days in 1492 when the New World gracefully yielded her virginity to the conquering Castilians
Página 238 - [a]s naked as their mothers bore them, and so the women, though I did not see more than one young girl. All I saw were youths, well made, with very handsome bodies and very good countenances
Página 105 - to you and made this Requisition, we request the notary here present to give us his testimony in writing, and we ask the rest who are present that they should be witnesses of

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