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This study examines the role of rhetoric in two early accounts of the conquest of Mexico: Hernan Cortes's Cartas de relacion (1519-1526) and Francisco Lopez de Gomara's Historia de la conquista de Mexico (1552). Although rhetoric, understood in Aristotelian terms, owes allegianc…

Paris has become inscribed in Latin American narrative texts, as an ideal space, a literary Mecca, and a place for personal artistic expansion. It delineates a space where protagonists and their language come up against their Latin American identities and the problematic "place"…