Good evening :)
I hope that our weather will be a little less interesting on Friday as we continue with narratives of exploration. For class, please reread Cabeza de Vega and then read de Champlain.
Here is a link to the video that we watched in class:
These videos may also be useful:
This video is about Mann's other book 1491:
Here are a few questions for you and your journal.
-- How do Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca, and de Champlain depict the native peoples they encounter?
-- Compare these depictions to the self-depictions in the Native American folktales.
-- How do the explorers depict the America that they encounter?
-- Discuss the narrative voice in each narrative of exploration. How does the narrator represent himself? Do you find him credible? Why? Why not?
-- Does there seem to be a plot in Cabeza de Vaca's narrative? Why? Why not?
-- Does he develop as a character over time? Why? Why not?
-- What do you make of him referring to his fellows as the Christians? (Note that one is an African slave.)
--- Compare Cabeza de Vaca and Coyote.
-- What do our narratives tell us about the idea of empire and colonization?
-- Compare/contrast French attitudes towards native peoples, America, and empire to Spanish attitudes.
-- How does Mann's argument (see videos) add to your understanding of America and its literature?
-- Should our editors include one of these videos with Columbus' Letter? Why? Why not?
I'm looking forward to seeing what you have to say!
Dr. Szlyk
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