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The Discursive Encounter of Spain and America: the authority of eyewitness…
The Discursive Encounter of Spain and America: the authority of eyewitness testimony in writing history (Rolena Adorno)
Intro
historians had to to a tradeoff between being believed (authoritative) and the actual testimony (p.1)
The three main writers that will be discussed in this text are Bernal Diaz de Castillo, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas
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the works in question were a lot about the legitimacy the rights and rewards to the conquest. Was it legitimate to enslave the Indians etc.?
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