Imagining Columbus The Literary Voyage Author:Ilan Stavans Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage is Ilan Stavans's contribution to the literature on Columbus. "My purpose," says Stavans, "is to revisit, to investigate, to play with the asymmetrical geometries of the admiral's literary adventures in the human imagination." Arguing that writers have portrayed Columbus in three ways-as prophet or ... more »messiah, as ambitious gold-seeker, and as a conventional, rather unremarkable man-Stavans examines numerous poems, novels, short stories, dramas, and other works on Columbus in this provocative book.« less