The Discovery of America & other myths : a new world reader
/ Thomas Christensen and Carol Christensen, editors
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books , c1992
- 256 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
Includes biographical references and index.
Did the arrival of Europeans five centuries ago bring the benefits of western Civilization to a New World of barbarians, or did it bring death, slavery, and teror to long-established cultures? This controversial anthology brings together historical texts and contemporary fiction and essays that re-explore the conquest of the Americas and reveal issues that are still burning in the literature and imagination of the hemisphere.