![]() 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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