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Examines differing perspectives on the discovery, conquest and creation of the New World: Columbus and the encounter of difference; Cortés and the Aztecs; and, 500 years later, the events seen through works of contemporary fiction and post-colonial theory. Includes 15th- & 16th-century documents, Aztec civilization, and 20th-century literature by Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes.
Examines differing perspectives on the discovery, conquest and creation of the New World: Columbus and the encounter of difference; Cortés and the Aztecs; and, 500 years later, the events seen through works of contemporary fiction and post-colonial theory. Includes 15th- & 16th-century documents, Aztec civilization, and 20th-century literature by Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes.
