Imagining Columbus

The Literary Voyage
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-312-24032-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 169 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Imagining Columbus is Stavans's contribution to the literature on Columbus. 'My purpose,' says Stavans, 'is to revisit, to investigate, to play with the asymmetrical geometries of the admiral's literary adventures in the human imagination.' Arguing that writers have portrayed Columbus in three ways-as prophet or messiah, as ambitious gold-seeker, and as a conventional, rather unremarkable man-Stavans examines numerous poems, novels, short stories, dramas, and other works on Columbus in this provocative book. In Part 1, 'Mapmaking,' Stavans explores the two opposing views of the celebration of the quincentennial, and discusses the most notable biographies of Columbus, including those by Washington Irving and Samuel Eliot Morison. In Part 2, 'Lives of a Literary Character,' Stavans takes up the geographic and historical development of Columbus as a narrative figure in literature, and devotes a chapter to each of the three literary views of the admiral. Stavans includes portrayals of other writers' views on Columbus like Walt Whitman, Alejo Carpentier, James Fenimore Cooper, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nikos Kazantzakis, Rubén Darío, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, among others.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stavans, I.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Introduction Acknowledgments PART I: MAPMAKING Discovery of Encounter? Biographical Sketches Facts on File PART II: LIVES OF A LITERARY CHARACTER Masquerade The Man The Villain The Symbol Conclusion: In Search of the Future

Über Autor(innen)

ILAN STAVANS is Professor of Spanish at Amherst College and the author/editor of over twenty books including (sold over 30,000 copies, 7th printing) and (sold over 50,000 copies, 9th printing). In the next year, Stavans's upcoming books include (Viking 01) and (02). The editor-in-chief of , Stavans has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Literature Prize, and was nominated to the National Book Critics Circle Award.