Imagining Columbus The Literary Voyage

Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyageis Ilan Stavans's contribution to the literature on Columbus. "My purpose," says Stavans, "is to revisit, to investigate, to play with the asymmetrical geometries of the admiral's literary adventures in the human imagination." Arguing that writers have portrayed Columbus in three waysas prophet or messiah, as ambitious gold-seeker, and as a conventional, rather unremarkable manStavans examines numerous poems, novels, short stories, dramas, and other works on Columbus in this provocative book.Stavans, Ilan is the author of 'Imagining Columbus The Literary Voyage', published 2001 under ISBN 9780312240325 and ISBN 0312240325.