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At once moving and lyrical, The Accidental Indies is a tale in which we join Christopher Columbus on a fantastical voyage through western seas and Western imagination. Robert Finley imagines, sings, charts, and paints the story of Columbus's problematic 1492 expedition to the Caribbean, creating a world that is as vivid and compelling as the explorer's own voyage to the misnamed "Indies".It is a journey through wondrous words that begins with Columbus's earliest explorations when he first "tests the heft and roundness of this earth against his infant head" by stepping from the edge of his rocking cradle to come up short on the boards of the nursery floor. Finley charts a course for us through the days at sea, through the voyage itself, its records and commentaries, into the fraught territory of Columbus' imaginary "Indies" and the representation of this New World on his return to Spain.This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "naming" has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies. It is a book about how we perceive and represent the world around us, about the creative and destructive power of language. Through its elaboration of the rich and lively ironies of the Columbus story, The Accidental Indies looks at the nature of storytelling itself.

Discoveries in geography --- Explorers --- Columbus, Christopher, --- West Indies --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colomb, Christophe, --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph

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Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kadir's timely review of the founding doctrines of empire. The language of prophecy and divine predestination fills the pronouncements of those who ventured across the Atlantic. The effects of such language and their implications for current theoretical debates about colonialism and decolonization are legion. Kadir suggests that in this supposedly postcolonial era, richer nations and the privileged still manipulate the rhetoric of conquest to justify and serve their own worldly ends. For colonized peoples who live today at the "ends of the earth," the age of exploitation may be no different from the age of exploration.

Prophecy --- Americas - General --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Columbus, Christopher. --- America --- Europe --- Discovery and exploration. --- Territorial expansion. --- Prophecy (Christianity) --- Colomb, Christophe --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Discovery and exploration --- Territorial expansion

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In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the queen of Spain, but just five years later it was in ruins. It remains important, however, as the first site of European settlement in America and the first place of sustained interaction between Europeans and the indigenous Taínos.Kathleen Deagan and José María Cruxent now tell the story of this historic enterprise. Drawing on their ten-year archaeological investigation of the site of La Isabela, along with research into Columbus-era documents, they contrast Spanish expectations of America with the actual events and living conditions at America's first European town. Deagan and Cruxent argue that La Isabela failed not because Columbus was a poor planner but because his vision of America was grounded in European experience and could not be sustained in the face of the realities of American life. Explaining that the original Spanish economic and social frameworks for colonization had to be altered in America in response to the American landscape and the non-elite Spanish and Taíno people who occupied it, they shed light on larger questions of American colonialism and the development of Euro-American cultural identity.

Indians --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- First contact with Europeans. --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Homes and haunts --- La Isabela (Dominican Republic) --- Isabela, La (Dominican Republic) --- Isabella (Dominican Republic) --- Colonization. --- First contact (Anthropology) --- First contact with Europeans --- First contact with other peoples.

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Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological implications. Her comprehensive study takes into account the newly discovered "Libro Copiador," which includes previously unknown letters from Columbus to the Crown. Zamora examines those aspects of the texts that have caused the most anxiety and disagreement among scholars--questions concerning Columbus's destination, the authenticity and authority of the texts attributed to him, Las Casas's editorial role, and Columbus's views on the Indians. In doing so she opens up the vast cultural context of the Discovery. Exploring the ways in which the first images of America as seen through European eyes both represented and helped shape the Discovery, she maps the inception and growth of a discourse that was to dominate the colonizing of the New World.

Americas - General --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Style, Literary. --- Ontdekkingsreizen. --- Historia da america. --- Literarisches Werk. --- Exploration. --- America. --- Columbus, Christopher --- Colón, Cristóbal, --- Columbus, Christopher. --- Colomb, Christophe, --- Colombo, Cristoforo. --- Literary art. --- Style. --- America --- Amérique --- History and criticism. --- Découverte et exploration. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Writing skill. --- Early accounts to 1600 --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Colomb, Christophe --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- History and criticism --- 1492. --- appropriation. --- authenticity. --- authority. --- cartography. --- christopher columbus. --- colonialism. --- columbus. --- destination. --- discovery of the americas. --- discovery. --- expeditions. --- exploration. --- ferdinand. --- gender. --- ideology. --- indigenous peoples. --- isabela. --- journey. --- las casas. --- latin america. --- latin american history. --- latin american literature and culture series. --- libro copiador. --- literary letters. --- native americans. --- native peoples. --- pilgrimage. --- testimony. --- the crown. --- the new world. --- travel narratives. --- world history.

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Littérateurs, historiens, penseurs sociaux, hagiographes ou détracteurs ont présenté, parfois créé peut-être le personnage de l’initiateur d’un monde nouveau, saint ou aventurier rapace, « restaurateur de l’esclavage » ou « rassembleur de la terre de Dieu », fondateur ou destructeur de la société moderne. Ainsi s’est-il établi un modèle d’action, positif ou négatif Et le mythe, né de l’histoire, a d’autant plus aisément eu prise sur elle qu’il a contribué à l’engendrer, qu’une vision mystique de sa vocation a pu guider Colomb lui-même, le « porte-Christ », dans sa grande entreprise. Il a pu être à la fois savant, mathématicien et illuminé. Le but de ce recueil est de montrer, non le visage du personnage historique, mais celui que lui a donné l’imaginaire collectif.

Columbus, Christopher --- Colomb, Christophe --- Congresses --- In literature --- Congrès --- Dans la littérature --- America --- Amérique dans la littérature --- Amérique --- Discovery and exploration --- Découverte et exploration --- -Columbus, Christopher --- -Colón, Cristóbal --- Colombo, Cristoforo --- Ko-lun-pu --- Gelunbu --- Colón y Fontanarrosa, Cristóbal --- Fontanarrosa, Cristóbal Colón y --- Kolumbus, Kryštof --- Kolombos, Kʻristapʻor --- Kolompos, Kʻristapʻor --- Kolumb, Khristofor --- Kolumb, Krzysztof --- Kolumbo, Kristof --- Kolumbus, Christoph --- Kolomb, Kristof --- Ḳolon, Ḳrisṭobal --- Colombo, Christovam --- Colombo, Cristóvão --- Colom --- Colom, Cristòfor --- Colom, Cristóbal --- Ḳolumbus, Ḳrisṭof --- Columbus, Ch. --- Kholupus, Khristov --- Kolampacu --- Colonne, Cristoforo --- קאלומבוס, קריסטאף --- קאלומבוס, קריסטופר --- קולומבוס --- Kolomvos, Christophoros --- -Congresses --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- -Congresses. --- Conferences - Meetings --- -Colomb, Christophe --- Colombus, Christophorus --- Columbus, Christoffel --- Colón, Cristóbal --- Congrès --- Dans la littérature --- Amérique dans la littérature --- Amérique --- Découverte et exploration --- Congresses. --- Columbus, Christopher - Congresses --- Columbus, Christopher - In literature - Congresses --- America - In literature - Congresses --- History --- Literary Theory & Criticism --- imaginaire collectif --- recueil --- personnage historique --- mythe --- hagiographie --- aventurier --- Colomb (christophe), 1446-1506 --- Amerique --- Influence --- Decouverte et exploration