La escritura y el camino
Subtitle: discurso de viajeros en el Nuevo Mundo : artículos reunidos
By: Blanca López de Mariscal
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Memoria, literatura y discurso -- 2
Publisher: Bonilla Artigas Editores; Tecnológico de Monterrey; CONACYT, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Published: 2014
Place of publication: México, D.F; Monterrey, Nuevo León; México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9786078348251
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Spanish; Historiography; Early accounts to 1600; Explorers; Biography; History and criticism
Work titles: Essays
Description: Surveys and interprets reports of early European travelers to Americas during period of conquest. Describes and analyzes their discursive strategies and their explicit and implicit audiences, highlighting literary and political context of these works. Reflects on different types of travelers and ways they spoke about urban and rural landscape, ship crossings, presence of/dangers to women, catastrophes, merchants and pirates, and other aspects. Edition limited to 500 copies.
Notes: Essays previously published during the decade of the 1990s, now updated.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218).