Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition

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Author: Ilan Stavans
ISBN: 9780312240325

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From the publisher

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, Rubn Daro, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, among others.

Details

Title Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage
Author I. Stavans
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 169
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Palgrave MacMillan, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Date 2001-10-18
ISBN 9780312240325 / 0312240325
Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
Dimensions 9.2 x 6.14 x 0.51 in (23.37 x 15.60 x 1.30 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Columbus, Christopher - In literature
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001036150
Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

About the author

ILAN STAVANS is Professor of Spanish at Amherst College and the author/editor of over twenty books including The Hispanic Condition (sold over 30,000 copies, 7th printing) and Growing Up Latino (sold over 50,000 copies, 9th printing). In the next year, Stavans's upcoming books include On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (Viking 01) and The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (02). The editor-in-chief of Hopscotch: A Cultural Review, Stavans has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Literature Prize, and was nominated to the National Book Critics Circle Award.