Approaches to teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and other texts /

"In 1527 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca journeyed from Spain to Florida with the ill-fated Pánfilo de Narváez expedition--and ended up wandering by land for years with a small band of survivors before reaching Spanish outposts in modern-day Mexico. He later traveled to South America as an appointed...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Restrepo, Luis Fernando (Editor), Jáuregui, Carlos A. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2025.
Series:Approaches to teaching world literature ; 181.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Teaching and Unteaching Cabeza de Vaca / Luis Fernando Restrepo and Carlos A. Jáuregui
  • Cabeza de Vaca's Account
  • Cabeza de Vaca: His Life, Work, and Legacy / Rolena Adorno
  • Unteaching Cabeza de Vaca; or, How to Question the Culture of Conquest / José Rabasa
  • Mala Cosa, C'est Moi / Carlos A. Jáuregui
  • Intersectional Perspectives
  • Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading a Complex Esteban in and around Naufragios / Kathryn Joy McKnight
  • Gender, Transgender, and Queer Inbetweenness in the Relación / Paola Uparela
  • Other Accounts
  • The Southern Fiasco: Law and Writing in Comentarios / Loreley El Jaber
  • Colonial Reckoning: The Problem with Cabeza de Vaca / René Carrasco
  • Cabeza de Vaca across Disciplines
  • Early Spanish Expeditions in La Florida and the Archaeology of Conquest / George Sabo III and Jeffrey M. Mitchem
  • North American Space in the Relación / Vanina M. Teglia
  • Food Studies and Naufragios / Mariselle Meléndez
  • Hispanic Literatures, Border Studies, and Digital Humanities
  • Between Land and Sea: The Relación as New World Literature / Ralph Bauer
  • Naufragios and the Creation of a Latino Literary Canon / Lázaro Lima
  • From the Desert to the Digital World: Adapting Cabeza de Vaca / Luis Fernando Restrepo.