SPAN 658 The Mexican Conquest: European and Indigenous Accounts
In-depth study of the Mexican Conquest from both European and Indigenous accounts. This course will examine the narrative discourse of primary texts, the contradictions within and among the diverse texts, the myths surrounding the Latin American conquest in general and Mexican in particular, and historiographical issues about the documents under study. Main authors/texts will include Hernan Cortes, Francisco López de Gómara, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Bernadino de Sahagún, Fray Toribio de Motolinía, Diego Muñoz Camargo, Diego Durán, Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Florentine Codex, Cantares mexicanos, and the Lienzo of Tlaxcala.