Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index.
Contents:
Lope de Aguirre in Latin American culture : historical figure and literary character -- Why Spaniards dreamed : the golden legend and colonial searches for El Dorado -- The Ursúa/Aguirre expedition as written historical record : fact that will become fiction -- Birth of a caudillo : Uslar Pietri's El camino de El Dorado -- Limited immortality : Aguirre stalks history in Posse's Daimón -- Characterization as historical progression in Otero Silva's Lope de Aguirre, príncipe de la libertad -- Aguirre's dialogue with history in Jorge Ernesto Funes' Una lanza por Lope de Aguirre -- A (his)story that will live forever : the supremacy of fiction in Alvarez Sáenz' Crónica de blasfemos -- The eternal pilgrim : Lope de Aguirre in the Latin American novel and beyond.
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