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A Theater of Terror: Staging the Encounter in Sahagún’s 1585 Revision of Book XII of the Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España
- Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Volume 44, Number 2, Fall 2011
- pp. 43-60
- 10.1353/mml.2011.0009
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
The symbolic richness of the revised episode, as I have suggested, transcends this supposed intent to glorify the actions of Cortés and put the narrative more in line with other Franciscan historiography of the period. instead of smart and sophisticated, Cortés and the Spaniards come across as rather ridiculous and ignorant operators in an unfamiliar world.
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