CREATION OF THE NEW WORLD (CL3033)

Examines differing perspectives on the discovery, conquest and creation of the New World: Columbus and the encounter of difference; Cortes and the Aztecs; and, 500 years later, the events seen through works of contemporary fiction and post-colonial theory. Includes 15th-and 16th-century documents, Aztec civilization, and 20th-century literature by Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Carlos Fuentes.