Assignment #1 LIT

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Submit a fully-developed essay of at least 500 words in response to the following question:

• Many European writers have been discussed in Module 2 and each portrayed America from a personal perspective. What are the dominant themes of these Eurocentric
portrayals? In a well-developed expository essay, present your view and support it with specific quotations from the texts.

Read the following unit in the Study Guide to Accompany American Passages: A Literary Survey:

• “Unit 2: Exploring Borderlands”

Read the following selections from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume A:

• Christopher Columbus, brief bio and Letters
• Bartolomé de las Casas, brief bio and excerpts from The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies
• Álvar Núñes Cabeza de Vaca, brief bio and excerpts from The Relation of Álvar Núñes Cabeza de Vaca
John Smith, brief bio and excerpts from General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles

• Study Guide to Accompany American Passages: A Literary Survey (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004).
ISBN-10: 0393979393

• The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume A, 8th ed., edited by Nina Baym (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012).
ISBN-13: 978-0393934762