SN 391 - Travel Writings of the New World

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: SN 203 or SN 217 . Examines the role of travel in colonial Spanish America and how it contributed in the creation of the idea of the New World. Special attention is placed on the "ways of seeing" of the authors who represented colonial territories and their inhabitants. Primary texts include works from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, by authors with diverse backgrounds-military men and women, bureaucrats, businessmen, and scientists-like Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Catalina de Erauso "The Second Lieutenant Nun," Antonio de Ulloa, and Alexander Von Humboldt. IL