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Contents Preface to the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part One: Materials Santa Arias and Eyda M. Merediz Texts and Editions 9 Las Casas in Literature 12 Las Casas Online 13 The Instructors Library 14 Part Two: Approaches Teaching Las Casas across the Disciplines The Intellectual Life of Bartolome de Las Casas: Framing the Literature Classroom 19 Rolena Adorno Teaching Las Casas through the Lens of the Historian 33 Lawrence Clayton Pedagogical Uses of Las Casass Texts for Anthropologists 42 Laura A. Lewis The Place of Las Casas in Religious Studies 48 Kristy Nabhan-Warren Teaching Las Casass Brevisima relacion de la destruccion de las Indias Hearing Las Casas Write: Rhetoric and the Facade of Orality in the Brevisima relacion 57 Ruth Hill Confronting Stereotypes: The Brevisima relacion as Homily, 65 Not History Cynthia L. Stone Images and War: The Representation of Violence in Colonial Times and Today 73 Gustavo Verdesio The Textual Conversation of Las Casass Brevisima relacion and Its 1656 British Translation 81 Angelica Duran On the Brevisima relacions Black Legends: Eighteenth-Century Texts and Contexts 92 David F. Slade and Karen Stolley Learning by Doing: Applying Language Classroom Techniques to the Study of Las Casass Brevisima relacion 99 Sara L. Lehman Teaching Other Lascasian Texts Imperial Reason, War Theory, and Human Rights in Las Casass Apologia and the Valladolid Debate 106 Carlos A. Jauregui and Luis Fernando Restrepo The Noble Savage as Utopian Figure? Teaching the Apologetica historia sumaria 117 Jose Rabasa Teaching De unico vocationis modo: The Maternal Discourse of Bartolome de Las Casas 124 Song No Teaching Restitution: Las Casas, the Rules for Confessors, and the Politics of Repayment 132 Regina Harrison Teaching Las Casas in the Broader Ibero-American Context Teaching Columbus from the Margins of Las Casas 141 Margarita Zamora Las Casas versus Oviedo: The Polemic between the Defender of the Indians and the Enemy of the Indians 147 Kathleen Ann Myers On Barbarism, Demons, and Natural Reason: Las Casass Rhetoric of Human Sacrifices in Pre-Hispanic Mexico 159 Viviana Diaz Balsera Las Casas as Genealogical Keystone for Discourses on Political Independence 167 Santa Arias Addressing the Atlantic Slave Trade: Las Casas and the Legend of the Blacks 177 Eyda M. Merediz and Veronica Salles-Reese Teaching Liberation Theology: The Legacy of Las Casas 187 Erik Camayd-Freixas Las Casas and the Testimonial Narrative 196 Melvin S. Arrington, Jr. All about Las Casas: The Productive Dialogue between Literature and Film 203 Eyda M. Merediz Teaching Las Casas in a Comparative Perspective Las Casas and Early Modern Spanish and English Colonialist Discourses 210 Elizabeth Sauer Las Casas and the American Literature Survey 218 Thomas Scanlan Las Casas in French and Other Languages 225 Jonathan Hart Bartolome de Las Casas and His Counterparts in the Luso-Brazilian World 235 Lucia Helena Costigan Notes on Contributors 243 Survey Respondants 247 Works Cited 249 Index 279
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Casas, Bartolomãae de las, 1474-1566 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Casas, Bartolomãae de las, 1474-1566 -- Criticism, Textual.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Study and teaching.
Indians, Treatment of -- Study and teaching.
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Study and teaching.
America -- History -- To 1810 -- Study and teaching.