The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589

Introduction; Part I. The Discourse of Mythification; 1. Christopher Columbus and the definition of America as booty; 2. Hern n Cortes and the creation of the model conqueror; Part II. Demythification and Questioning: 3. From failure to demythification; 4. The models in crisis; Part III. A Literary Expression of the Unfolding of a New Consciousness: 5. Alonso de Ercilla and the development of a Spanish American Consciousness; Notes; Index.