Imagining Columbus

The Literary Voyage

By: Ilan Stavans

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Paperback | 8 September 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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, Rub n Dar o, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, among others.

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'Ilan Stavans has accomplished a difficult task: to be both extensive and intensive in his quest for the truth and mystery which surround Christopher Columbus. The exploration through wide studies of myth, history, and literature is as exciting as it is authoritative.' - Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, The University of Texas at Austin

'A strikingly original and extraordinarily informative account of Columbus's travels from the New World to the book world. Highly recommended.' - Gustavo Perez Firmat, author of Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way

'In this highly original book, Ilan Stavans takes a postmodern look at Christopher Columbus by seeing him as a plural entity in continuous shift. There is not one Columbus-not even two Columbuses, the savior and the offender-but many of them, which are the product of worldwide ideological manipulation and literary imagination. Thoroughly researched and easy to read, Imagining Columbus is one of the most interesting books commemorating the European and American encounter.' - Antonio Benitez-Rojo, author of The Repeating Island

'Washington Irving invented Columbus for the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. Ilan Stavans has reinvented him for our fin de siecle-and perhaps for the following centuries.' - Jose Emilio Pacheco, author of You Will Die in a Distant Land

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Introduction
Mapmaking
Discovery of Encounter?
Biographical Sketches
Facts on File
Lives of a Literary Character
Masquerade
The Man
The Villain
The Symbol
Introduction
Mapmaking
Discovery of Encounter?
Biographical Sketches
Facts on File
Lives of a Literary Character
Masquerade
The Man
The Villain
The Symbol
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