The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and the polemics of possession
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas : polemicist and author
Councilors warring at the royal court
Historians of war and princely warriors
The encomendero and his literary interlocutors
The conquistador-chronicler and his literary authority
The Amerindian : studied, interpreted, and imagined
The narrative invention of Gonzalo the Warrior
The narrative reinvention of the conqueror "captive"
From Guancane to Macondo : literary places and their predecessors
Seeing ghosts: the longevity of "serpents in sandals."