Latin American Studies – Daniel's Blog

Probably one of the last things you would expect to ever happen in the 17th century, to me at least, was a transgender conquistador. When I read Catalina de Erauso’s summarized life story at the beginning of the reading, I was immediately taken aback. What struck me as even more surprising, however, was the fact that once it became revealed that Catalina had ran away from the covenant, across Spain, and to the Americas, both the Pope and the King of Spain allowed her to go about her ways. Although,…read more

Reading   Before I even started reading this text, I had a feeling that it would be both dense and hard to follow through. The latter was true, but not because of its density, in terms of the use of antique language, but because of the actual content within the journals. Truly, the reading is hard to go through because it allows you to see the mentality that Christopher Columbus had towards the natives, and how he saw himself and his goals in that land. This mentality he and his…read more