Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Personal Introduction
Chapter 2 Lope de Aguirre in Latin American Culture: Historical Figure and Literary Character
Chapter 3 Why Spaniards Dreamed: The Golden Legend and Colonial Searches for El Dorado
Chapter 4 The Ursúa/Aguirre Expedition as Written Historical Record: Fact that Will Become Fiction
Chapter 5 Birth of a Caudillo: Uslar Pietri's El camino de El Dorado
Chapter 6 Limited Immortality: Aguirre Stalks History in Posse's Daimón
Chapter 7 Characterization as Historical Progression in Otero Silva's Lope de Aguirre, Príncipe de la Libertad
Chapter 8 Aguirre's Dialogue with History in Jorge Ernesto Funes' Una lanza por Lope de Aguirre
Chapter 9 A (His)Story that Will Live Forever: The Supremacy of Fiction in Álvarez Sáenz' Crónica de Blasfemos
Chapter 10 The Eternal Pilgrim: Lope de Aguirre in the Latin American Novel and Beyond

About the Author

Bart L. Lewis is an Associate Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Texas-Arlington. His more than than thirty articles on Latin American literature have appeared in such journals as Hispanic Review, Hispanófila, Hispanic Journal, Revista Interamericana de Bibliografia, Revista Iberoamericana, Hispania, Romance Notes, and Chasqui. In 1997 he was named the Carnegie Foundation Arkansas Professor of the Year.