Published 2015-08-01
“…This article aims at showing - through the contrast between the official documents: Columbuss Journal (1492) and Caminhas Letter (1500), and the
Historical Romance genre produced in the Americas - how the literature has sought to reveal to society other images of the natives than those produced by Europeans in stereotypical historical documents, which account for biased physical and psychological aspects, devaluing the natives, seen as easy beings to dominate, catechize and enslave. …”
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