Specters of conquest
Subtitle: indigenous absence in transatlantic literatures
By: Adam Lifshey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: American literatures initiative
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780823232383; 9780823232406
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Comparative literature -- Theory, etc; America -- In literature; Western Hemisphere -- In literature; America -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Columbus the haunted.  The diary of the first voyage and William Carlos Williams's "The discovery of the Indies"; title: 2.  Indigenous atextualizations.  The Popol Vuh and I, Rigoberta Menchú:  An Indian woman in Guatemala; title: 3. Castaway Colonialism.  Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's account; title: 4.  Apparitions of Africa.  Leoncio Evita's "When the combes fought" and José Martí's "Our America"; title: 5.  Subjunctive America.  Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" and Gabriel García Márquez's "Love in the time of cholera."