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Adorno, Rolena, and Patrick Charles Pautz. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Exploration of Panfilo de Narvaez. 3 vols. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999. (Paperback edition of the text and introduction 2003.)

Adorno, Rolena. "The Negotiation of Fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufrigios." Representations 33 (1991): 163-99.

Ahern, Maureen. "The Cross and the Gourd: The Appropriation of Ritual Signs in the Relaciones of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's Illustrations." Early Images of the Americas. Ed. Robert Lewis and Jerry Williams. T

Alcocer, Rudyard. "Going in Circles: Spanish American Identity and the Circular Motif in Nicolas Echevarria's Cabeza de Vaca." Literature/Film Quarterly 36.4 (2008): 250-58.

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/vaca.htm

Alvaray, Luisela. "Imagi(ni)ng Indigenous Spaces: Self and Other in Latin America." Film & History 34.2 (2004): 58-64.

Archive of the West http://www.pbs.org.weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs610/cabeza.htm [Archived]

Arnold, William. "Foreign Adventure Movies Leave Much to Be Explored." Seattle Post-Intelligencer 14 August 1992: 11.

Arroyo, Silvia. "Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, or the Construction of a Hero through His Travels in The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca." The Image of the Road in Literature, Media, and Society. Ed. Will Wright and Steve Kaplan. Pueblo: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Pueblo: Colorado State University, 2005. 78-81.

Beck, Peggy, Nia Francisco, and Anna Lee Walters. The Sacred. Tsaile: Navajo Community College P, 1995.

Billings, Thomas. Rev. of Cabeza de Vaca. Internet Movie Data Base. 1997. http://us.imdb.com/Reviews/09/0997

Bishop, Morris. The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca. New York: Century,1933.

Bitterli, Urs. Cultures in Conflict: Encounters between European and Non-European Cultures, 1492-1800. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1989.

Bruce-Novoa, Juan. "Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca." The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter et al. 2nd ed. Vol.1. Lexington: Heath, 1994. 129-39.

Burlingame, Robert. "More Than We Thought: Cabeza de Vaca, Haniel Long, and Our Day." Southwest Review (Autumn 1961): 360-73.

Cabeza de Vaca de Nicolas Echevarria http://www.monteuve.com/pag/peliculas/pcl.html [Archived]

Cabeza de Vaca Page http://www.lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/cabeza.html

Cabeza de Vaca's Background Page http://www.webcom/sheppard/cab-back.html [Archived]

Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez. The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536. tr. from his own narrative by Fanny Bandelier. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1905.

Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez. Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition. Based on the translation by Fanny Bandelier. Introduction by Ilan Stevens. New York: Penguin, 2002.

Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez. The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion. Trans. Martin Favata and Jose Fernandez. Houston: Arte Publico P, 1993.

Cabeza de Vaca. Dir. Nicolas Echevarria. Perf. Juan Diego, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Carlos Castanon, and Gerardo Villareal. Producciones Iguana and Television Espanola, 1991.

Canby, Vincent. "On the Road with Cabeza de Vaca." The New York Times 23 March 1991: C12.

Carr, Jay. Rev. of Cabeza de Vaca. The Boston Globe 21 September 1992: 32.

Cebollero, Pedro. "The Double Discourse of Indian Mythicizing in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios." Hispanic Journal 28.1 (2007): 23-34.

Cheaves, Sam Frank. Child of the Sun: A Historical Novel Based on the Journey of Cabeza de Vaca Across North America. Santa Fe: Sun, 1986.

Chipman, Donald E. "In Search of Cabeza de Vaca's Route across Texas: An Historical Survey." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 91 (1987): 127-48.

"The Cinematic Renaissance of Contemporary Mexico 1985-1992." Spectator 13 (1992): 70-85.

Clissold, Stephen. The Seven Cities of Cibola. New York: Potter, 1962.

De Grazia, Ted. De Grazia Paints Cabeza de Vaca: The First Non-Indian in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona 1527-1536. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1973.

Della Flora, Anthony. "Film Follows Life of Cabeza de Vaca." Albuquerque Journal 14 June 1998: H2.

Denby, David. Rev. of Cabeza de Vaca. New York 8 June 1992: 59.

Docter, Mary. "Enriched by Otherness: The Transformational Journey of Cabeza de Vaca." Christianity and Literature 58.1 (2008): 3-27.

Dowling, Lee. "Story vs. Discourse In the Chronicle of the Indies: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion." Hispanic Journal 5 (1984): 89-99.

Dussel, Enrique. The Invention of the Americas. New York: Continuum, 1995.

Ebel, Mark T. Five Films of Pre-Columbian Culture, The Discovery of the New World, and the Spanish Conquest. Diss. Florida State U, 1996. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1997.

Espanoles en la Golgo de Mexico. Dir. Apolonio Torres. Films for the Humanities, 1986.

Fellner, Astrid M. "Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier." Transnational American Memories: Media and Cultural Memory. Ed. Udo J. Hebel. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009.

Fernandez, Enrique. Rev. of Cabeza de Vaca. Village Voice 26 May 1992: 72.

Gomez-Galisteo, Carmen. "The Conquistador Who Wrote a Captivity Narrative: Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios as a Captivity Narrative." Americana: E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 4.2 (2008): n.p.

Goodman, Nan. "Mercantilism and Cultural Difference in Cabeza de Vaca's 'Relacion'." Early American Literature 40.2 (2005): 229-50.

Gordon, Richard. "Exoticism and National Identity in Cabeza de Vaca and Como Era Gostoso O Meu Frances [How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman]." Torre de Papel 10.1 (2000): 77-119.

Gordon, Richard. "Exoticizing the Nation in Cabeza de vaca and Come era gostoso o meu frances." Cannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2009. 47-76.

Grenier, Richard. "Politically Correct Conquistador." The Washington Times 16 May 1991: G4.

Guthmann, Edward. "Mystical Film of Spanish Explorer's Trek." The San Francisco Chronicle 10 July 1992: D5.

Hall, Oakley. The Children of the Sun. New York: Atheneum, 1983.

Hallenbeck, Clive. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: The Journey and Route of the First European to Cross the Continent of North America, 1534-1536. Glendale: Arthur H.Clarke, 1940.

Harner, Michael. The Way of the Shaman. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1980.

Hart, Billy Thurman. A Critical Edition With a Study of the Style of La Relacion by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Diss. U of Southern California, 1974. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1974.

Hartl, John. "Voyage of Discovery." The Seattle Times 14 August 1992: 20.

Haven, Stephen. "A Geography of Movement." The American Poetry Review 24 (1995): 48-49.

Henderson, Walter Brooks Drayton. The New Argonautica: An Heroic Poem in Eight Cantos of the Voyage Among the Stars of the Immortal Spirits of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Ponce De Leon and Nunez de Vaca. New York: Macmillian, 1927.

Hershfield, Joanne. "Assimilation and Identification in Nicolas Echevarria's Cabeza de Vaca." Wide Angle 16 (1995): 7-24.

Hickerson, Nancy P. "Rituals of Confrontation: Cabeza de Vaca and the Texas Indians." Intertexts 1.2 (1997): 169-76.

Howard, David A. Conquistador in Chains: Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1997.

The Hypertext Edition of the Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca http://www.bennington.edu/courses/history/archive/cabeza/index.html [Archived]

IMCINE Homepage http://www.imcine.gob.mx/cabeza.html [Archived]

Jackson, Kevin. Rev. of Cabeza de Vaca. The Independent 13 September 1991: 16.

Johnston, Lisa Jones. Crossing the Continent: The Incredible Journey of Cabeza de Vaca. Austin: Eakin, 1997.

The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536; tr. from his own narrative by Fanny Bandelier, together with the report of Father Marcos of Nizza and a letter from the viceroy Mendoza; ed., with an introduction, by Ad. F. Bandelier. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000288721

Journey of Cabeza de Vaca http://www.utmb.edu/galveston/history/devaca.html [Archived]

Juan-Navarro, Santiago. "Constructing Cultural Myths: Cabeza de Vaca in Contemporary Hispanic Criticism, Theater, and Film." A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film. Ed. Santiago Juan-Navarro and Theodore Robert Young. Newark: U of Delaware P., 2001. 67-79.

Juan-Navarro, Santiago. "Between El Dorado and Armageddon: Utopia and Apocalypse in the Films of the Encounter." Delaware Review of Latin American Studies 6.2 (2006). http://www.udel.edu/LASP/Vol6-2Juan-Navarro.htm

Kempley, Rita. "Cabeza de Vaca: An Explorer's Self-Discovery." The Washington Post 20 November 1992: C7.

King, John. Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America. New York: Verso, 1990.

Kraniauskas, John. "Cabeza de Vaca." Travesia (Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies) 1.2 (1992): 113-22.

Krickeberg, Walter, Hermann Trimborn, Werner Muller, and Otto Zerries. Pre-Columbian American Religions. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,1961.

Lee, Kun Jong. "Pauline Typology in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios." Early American Literature 34 (1999): 241-62.

Levi-Strauss, Claude. Structural Anthropology. Trans. Claire Jacobson. New York: Basic, 1963.

Liparulo, Steven P. "'From Fear to Wisdom': Augustinian Semiotics and Self-Fashioning in Cabeza de Vaca's Relacíon." Arizona Quarterly 62.2 (2006): 1-26.

Long, Haniel. The Power Within Us. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1944.

Lopez, Kimberle S. "Naked in the Wilderness: The Transculturation of Cabeza de Vaca in Abel Posse's El largo atardecer del caminante." A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film. Ed. Santiago Juan-Navarro and Theodore Robert Young. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2001. 149-65.

Lyon, William S. Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO,1998.

Mac, Perry I. Black Conquistador. St. Petersburg: Boca Bay, 1998.

Maciel, David R. "El Imperio de la Fortuna: Mexico's Contemporary Cinema, 1985-1992. The Mexican Cinema Project. Ed. Chon A. Noriega and Stephen Ricci. Austin: U of Texas P, 1994. 33-44.

Maciel, David. "The Cinematic Renaissance of Contemporary Mexico 1985-1992." Spectator 13 (1992): 70-85.

Magro, Tania de Miguel. "Religion as a Survival Strategy in Los Naufragios and in Echevarria's Film Cabeza de Vaca." Torre de papel 14.1-2 (2004): 52-63.

Matthews, Colin. The Great Journey. Cond. Colin Matthews. The Nash Ensemble. NMC, 1997.

McGann, Thomas. "The Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca." American Heritage (December 1960): 78-82.

Mexican Film Resource Page http://www.wam.umd.edu/~dwilt/mfb.html

Miller, Henry. Introduction. The Power Within Us or The Story of Cabeza de Vaca. Transformation Four. By Haniel Long. Ed. Stephan Schimanski and Henry Treece. London: Lindsay Drummond, 1946.

Mueller, Roseanna. "Two Unofficial Captive Narratives: Gonzalo Guerrero's Memorias and Cabeza de Vaca's Naufrigios." Latin America and Its Literature. Ed. Maria Elena De Valdes, Mario Valdes, and Richard Young. New York: St. John's UP, 1995.

Nanfito, Jacqueline C. "Cabeza de Vaca's Naufrigios y Comentarios: The Journey Motif in the Chronicle of the Indies." Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 21 (1994): 179-87.

The Narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca http://www.therblig.com/cabeza/narrative.html

Nogueira, Claudia Barbosa. "Journeys of Redemption: Discoveries, Re-discoveries, and Cinematic Representations of the Americas." Ph.D. diss. University of Maryland, 2006. http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/3372/1/umi-umd-3182.pdf

Ortiz, Ann Massengill. The Prophetic Dimensions of the Naufrigios of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Diss. U of North Carolina, 1995. Ann Arbor: UMI,1995.

Panger, Daniel. Black Ulysses. Athens: Ohio UP, 1982.

Pastor, Beatrice. "Silence and Writing: The History of the Conquest." 1492-1992: Re/Discovering Colonial Writing. Ed. Renee Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989. 121-63.

Pastor-Bodmer, Beatrice. The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992.

Pilkington, William T. "Epilogue." Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of North America. Trans. Cyclone Covey. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1984.

Rabasa, Jose. "Allegory and Ethnography in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufrigios and Comentarios." Violence, Resistance, and Survival in the Americas. Ed.William Taylor and Franklin Pease.Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. 40-66.

Rabin, Lisa. "Figures of Conversion and Subjectivity in Colonial Narrative." Hispania 82.1 (1999): 40-45.

Reff, Daniel T. "Text and Context: Cures, Miracles, and Fear in the Relacion of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca." Journal of the Southwest 38 (1996): 115-38.

Remington, Frederic. Cabeza de Vaca.The Frederic Remington Book. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966.

Resendez, Andres. "Cabeza de Vaca and the Problem of First Encounters." Historically Speaking 10.1 (2009): 36-38.

Restrepo, Luis Fernando. "Primitive Bodies in Latin American Cinema: Nicolas Echevarria's Cabeza de Vaca." Primitivism and Identity in Latin America. Ed. Erik Camayd-Freixas and Jose Eduardo Gonzalez. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2000. 189-208.

"Retelling in Modern Media." Americas 48 (1996): 27.

Rojinsky, David. "Found in Translation: Writing Beyond Hybridity in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios." Hofstra Hispanic Review 3.1 (2006): 11-25.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Rosenstone, Robert A. "History in Images / History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film." American Historical Review 93 (1988): 1173-85.

Seymour, Gene. Rev. of Cabeza de Vaca. Newsday 15 May 1992: 72.

Sheridan, Guillermo. Cabeza de Vaca Screenplay. Mexico City: Ediciones El Milagro, 1994.

Sheridan, Guillermo. "Shipwrecked in the Seas of Signification: Cabeza de Vaca's La Relacion and Chicano Literature." Reconstructing a Chicano Literary Heritage. Ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1993.

Silva, Alan J. "Conquest, Conversion, and the Hybrid Self in Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion." Post Identity 2.1 (1999): 123-46.

Slaughter, Frank Gill. Apalachee Gold: The Fabulous Adventures of Cabeza de Vaca. New York: Doubleday, 1954.

Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America Page http://www.vaca.com/inset11.html

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Strauss, Bob. "Cabeza de Vaca Focuses on the Sensational." Minneapolis Star Tribune 14 August 1992: E2.

Swan, Gladys. Do You Believe in Cabeza de Vaca? Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991.

Tallmer, Jerry. Rev. of Cabeza de Vaca. New York Post 15 May 1992: 32.

Taussig, Michael. Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.

Taylor, Noel. "Spaniard Meets Indian in Powerful Drama." The Ottawa Citizen 12 May 1992: D10.

Terrell, John Upton. Journey Into Darkness. New York: Morrow, 1962.

Thomas, Kevin. "Mysticism and Wonder Prevail in Cabeza de Vaca." Los Angeles Times 3 July 1992: F17.

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Torres, Eliseo. "Response to Cabeza de Vaca's Narratives in Regard to Healing Methods and His Role as a Folk Healer as Compared with Three Curanderos." 1 April 2000. http://www.english.swt.edu/CSS/ResponseCDV.html. [Archived]

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Wade, Mary Dodson. Cabeza de Vaca: Conquistador Who Cared. Houston: Colophon House, 1995.

Walter, Krista. "Filming the Conquest: Cabeza de Vaca and the Spectacle of History." Literature/Film Quarterly 30.2 (2002): 140-45.

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The West. The People. Dir. Ken Burns. Turner Home Entertainment, 1996.

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