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Article: Retellings in modern media
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- Americas
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Organization of American States, Sales and Promotion Division Jul/Aug 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Cabeza de Vaca's ordeal has inspired artists of all media to recreate his book in their own manner, drawing alternatively on the heroic, the macabre, or the spiritual shadings of his tale. Morris Bishop's The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca [1933) retells the story best in English, fusing archival materials, invented dialogue, and dramatic plotting that imaginatively fills in what Cabeza de Vaca himself left out. Oakely Hall's Children of the Sun (1983) aims at a higher literary style, while John Upton Terrell takes a more swashbuckling approach in Journey into Darkness Ul:6J and in his novel Estevanico the Black (1968). The Moor's tale also inspired Blackconsciousness writer Daniel Panger in his ...