![]() ![]() It depicts the education, loves and marriages, and other life experiences each brought to the unforeseen encounters and then their astonishment, fears, and objectives in 14. The drama alternates among three Taíno chieftains-Caonabó, Guacanagarí, and Guarionex-and a Taíno youth Columbus captures, Spain’s Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, and Columbus himself. A historical novel, Encounters Unforeseen: 1492 Retold now dramatizes these events from a bicultural perspective, fictionalizing the beliefs, thoughts, and actions of the Native Americans who met Columbus side by side with those of Columbus and other Europeans, all based on a close reading of Columbus’s Journal, other primary sources, and anthropological studies. ![]() After 525 years, the traditional literature recounting the history of Columbus’s epic voyage and first encounters with Native Americans remains Eurocentric, focused principally-whether pro- or anti-Columbus-on Columbus and the European perspective. ![]()
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