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The government of Asunción pledged loyalty to Cabeza de Vaca, and Irala was assigned to explore a possible route to Peru. Once Irala returned and reported, Cabeza de Vaca planned his own expedition. He hoped to reach Los Reyes (a base that Irala set up) and push forward into the jungle in search of a route to the gold and silver mines of Peru ...
Cabeza de Vaca is a 1991 Mexican film directed by Nicolás Echevarría and starring Juan Diego about the adventures of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490 – c. 1557), an early Spanish explorer, as he traversed what later became the American South.
El sueño de la pasión:Los cambios en la concepción y la expresión amorosa a través de los grandes textos literarios de la tradición occidental, 1997. Fátima de los naufragios: Relatos de tierra y mar, 1998. Dánae, 2000. CruciGama, 2000. Cara de niño, 2002. Impacto y pavor, 2003. Don Juan, el deseo y las mujeres, 2007.
The story is considered to be the first or one of the first works of literature in the New World (cf. Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios—"Shipwrecked" or "Castaways") for its fantastical/religious elements, it is arguable whether that is a "traveler's account" or actual literature; and Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista ...
Portrait of adelantado [note 1] Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who introduced the India Juliana in a 1545 account presented to the Council of the Indies.. Although the historical references about the India Juliana are brief, they establish a strong counterpoint with the more usual representations of Guaraní women in the early-colonial sources of the Río de la Plata region. [3]
Faces in the Crowd is a 2011 novel by Mexican author Valeria Luiselli, originally under the title Los ingrávidos (literally, "The Weightless"). [1] Christina MacSweeney 's English translation was published by Coffee House Press in 2014.
Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desaparecidos has appeared at numerous film festivals, museums and cultural centers, including: . CINE Golden Eagle Competition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Worcester ...
When the film was released The New York Times film critic, A. H. Weiler, gave it a positive review, writing, "... The Bravados emerges as a credit to its makers. Director Henry King, who headed the troupe that journeyed down to the photogenic areas of Mexico's Michoacán and Jalisco provinces, has seen to it that his cast and story move at an unflagging pace...The canyons, towering mountains ...