Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts
Teach a conquistador's writings about his journeys in the Americas

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 provincial governor, only to be sent back to Spain in chains some years after his arrival. His written works describing his experiences provide insights into the lives of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the attitudes of the Spanish conquistadores.

This volume provides background about the texts and discusses new ways to teach them, challenging outdated readings that erase the violence of Spanish imperialism. Essays examine the role of the enslaved African Esteban in Cabeza de Vaca's account of the North American expedition, the indigenous and Spanish women who appear in the explorer's texts, Cabeza de Vaca's performance of multiple gender roles, and the reception of these works as examples of Chicano or Latin American literature. The volume also explores connections to archaeological findings and food studies.

This volume contains discussion of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios y comentarios, Bartolomé de las Casas's De Unico Vocationis Modo Omnium Gentium ad Veram Religionem, Haniel Long's The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca (1973), Abel Posse's El largo atardecer del caminante (1992), Leila Lalami's The Moor's Account (2015), Nicolás Echevarría's film Cabeza de Vaca (1989), Ettore DeGrazia's DeGrazia Paints Cabeza de Vaca (1973), Colin Matthews's The Great Journey (1988), Raúl Ayala Arellano's Cabeza de Vaca (2001), George Antheil and Allan Dowling's Cabeza de Vaca (1961), and Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.

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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts
Teach a conquistador's writings about his journeys in the Americas

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 provincial governor, only to be sent back to Spain in chains some years after his arrival. His written works describing his experiences provide insights into the lives of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the attitudes of the Spanish conquistadores.

This volume provides background about the texts and discusses new ways to teach them, challenging outdated readings that erase the violence of Spanish imperialism. Essays examine the role of the enslaved African Esteban in Cabeza de Vaca's account of the North American expedition, the indigenous and Spanish women who appear in the explorer's texts, Cabeza de Vaca's performance of multiple gender roles, and the reception of these works as examples of Chicano or Latin American literature. The volume also explores connections to archaeological findings and food studies.

This volume contains discussion of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios y comentarios, Bartolomé de las Casas's De Unico Vocationis Modo Omnium Gentium ad Veram Religionem, Haniel Long's The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca (1973), Abel Posse's El largo atardecer del caminante (1992), Leila Lalami's The Moor's Account (2015), Nicolás Echevarría's film Cabeza de Vaca (1989), Ettore DeGrazia's DeGrazia Paints Cabeza de Vaca (1973), Colin Matthews's The Great Journey (1988), Raúl Ayala Arellano's Cabeza de Vaca (2001), George Antheil and Allan Dowling's Cabeza de Vaca (1961), and Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.

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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

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Teach a conquistador's writings about his journeys in the Americas

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 provincial governor, only to be sent back to Spain in chains some years after his arrival. His written works describing his experiences provide insights into the lives of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the attitudes of the Spanish conquistadores.

This volume provides background about the texts and discusses new ways to teach them, challenging outdated readings that erase the violence of Spanish imperialism. Essays examine the role of the enslaved African Esteban in Cabeza de Vaca's account of the North American expedition, the indigenous and Spanish women who appear in the explorer's texts, Cabeza de Vaca's performance of multiple gender roles, and the reception of these works as examples of Chicano or Latin American literature. The volume also explores connections to archaeological findings and food studies.

This volume contains discussion of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios y comentarios, Bartolomé de las Casas's De Unico Vocationis Modo Omnium Gentium ad Veram Religionem, Haniel Long's The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca (1973), Abel Posse's El largo atardecer del caminante (1992), Leila Lalami's The Moor's Account (2015), Nicolás Echevarría's film Cabeza de Vaca (1989), Ettore DeGrazia's DeGrazia Paints Cabeza de Vaca (1973), Colin Matthews's The Great Journey (1988), Raúl Ayala Arellano's Cabeza de Vaca (2001), George Antheil and Allan Dowling's Cabeza de Vaca (1961), and Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781603296861
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Publication date: 04/25/2025
Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: MATERIALS

Classroom Texts

The Instructor's Library

Online Resources

PART TWO: APPROACHES

Introduction: Teaching and Unteaching Cabeza de Vaca, by Luis Fernando Restrepo and Carlos A. Jáuregui

Cabeza de Vaca’s Account

Cabeza de Vaca: His Life, Work, and Legacy, by Rolena Adorno

Unteaching Cabeza de Vaca; or, How to Question the Culture of Conquest, by José Rabasa

Mala Cosa, C’est Moi, by Carlos A. Jáuregui

Intersectional Perspectives

Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading a Complex Esteban in and around Naufragios, by Kathryn Joy McKnight

Gender, Transgender, and Queer Inbetweenness in the Relación, by Paola Uparela

Other Accounts

The Southern Fiasco: Law and Writing in Comentarios, by Loreley El Jaber

Colonial Reckoning: The Problem with Cabeza de Vaca, by René Carrasco

Cabeza de Vaca across Disciplines

Early Spanish Expeditions in La Florida and the Archaeology of Conquest, by George Sabo III and Jeffrey M. Mitchem

North American Space in the Relación, by Vanina M. Teglia

Food Studies and Naufragios, by Mariselle Meléndez

Hispanic Literatures, Border Studies, and Digital Humanities

Between Land and Sea: The Relación as New World Literature, by Ralph Bauer

Naufragios and the Creation of a Latino Literary Canon, by Lázaro Lima

From the Desert to the Digital World: Adapting Cabeza de Vaca, by Luis Fernando Restrepo

Notes on Contributors

Survey Respondents

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