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2. The Meeting of Two Worlds

1492 is a mythic story, whether the spin is positive or negative, and myths cannot easily be surrendered.

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Posted in Lecture Videos, Week 2 Lecture | Tagged with allegory, C15th, C16th, colonization, Columbus, conquest, history, Las Casas, literature, myth, narrative, representation, Todorov

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