Madrid: Testimonio, 1989.ĭiario de Colón: Edición facsímil del "Libro de la primera navegación y descubrimiento de las Indias. Libro Copiador de Cristóbal Colón: Correspondencia inédita con los Reyes Católicos sobre los viajes a América. Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. )įour Voyages to the New World: Letters and Selected Documents. (Part of the collection entitled Raccolta de documenti e studi pubblicati della R. Rome: Ministerio della pubblica istruzione, 1892–94. Stephen Greenblatt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993): 1–11.Ĭecil Jane. René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992): 183–97 "Christopher Columbus's 'Letter to the Sovereigns': Announcing the Discovery," New World Encounters, ed. 1 (1989): 17–40 "Abreast of Columbus: Gender and Discovery," Cultural Critique 17 (Winter 1991): 127–49 "Reading in the Margins of Columbus," Amerindian Images, ed. The following pieces have been incorporated into the essays in this volume: "Todas son palabras formales del Almirante: Las Casas y el Diario de Colón," Hispanic Review 57 (1989): 25–41 "Text, Context, Intertext: Columbus's diario de a bordo as Palimpsest", The Americas 46, no. The work's most constant reader has been David Henige, from whose knowledge of Columbian history I and the manuscript have greatly benefited.įinally, I wish to thank the editors of various journals for granting permissions to reprint revised versions of my earlier publications. I appreciate the efforts of Eileen McWilliam, who guided the project through a rigorous review process, Amy Einsohn, who attentively copyedited the text, and Dore Brown, who carefully helped shape the manuscript into a book. Three editors at the University of California Press have left their mark on this volume. My most heartfelt thanks go to Judith Green, for her support through every stage of this project. Michael Gerli, Roberto González Echevarría, Stephen Greenblatt, and Juan Clemente Zamora, each of whom made valuable comments and suggestions on the manuscript, I reserve a special thank you. For sharing work-in-progress with me I am indebted to Tom Conley, Stephen Greenblatt, David Henige, Dennis Martin, and Steven Hutchinson. Reorganization of the collection was in progress and the library was essentially closed to the public.įor their support of this project in its formative stages I am grateful to Biruté Ciplijauskaité, Roberto González Echevarría, Nellie McKay, Elaine Marks, Stephanie Merrim, and Enrique Pupo-Walker. The staff at the Biblioteca Colombina in Seville, Spain, was especially helpful in facilitating my access to the Columbian postils, even as a major I am very grateful to have been able to consult materials in the archives and libraries of Portugal at the Biblioteca Central da Marinha, the Biblioteca Municipal de Evora, and the Biblioteca Nacional. Slive of the John Carter Brown Library, and Mark Warhus of the Office for Map History, American Geographical Society Collection, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. For generously sharing their time and expertise, I would like to express thanks to John Parker of the James Ford Bell Library, Daniel J. Clements Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor the James Ford Bell Library of the University of Minnesota and the American Geographical Society Collection at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. This work would not have been possible without the resources and assistance offered in the United States by the Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison the John Carter Brown Library of Brown University the Newberry Library the William L. Institutions that provided research support include the University of Wisconsin Graduate School, the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities, the Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Wisconsin, and the Cyril B. Their probing of issues too often taken for granted in the traditional academic disciplines, chief among them the interface of literature and history, prompted me to write an early version of the essay " 'All these are the Admiral's exact words.' " For that initial stimulus I owe them a debt of gratitude. This book began to take shape in the classroom, stimulated by questions my students at the University of Wisconsin raised regarding the validity and usefulness of reading Columbus in courses devoted to the study of Spanish-American literature and culture.
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