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Villas-Bôas, Luciana. "Wild Stories of a Pious Travel Writer: The Unruly Example of Hans Staden's Warhaftig Historia." Daphnis: Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit 33. 1-2 (2004): 187-212.

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Young, Theodore Robert. "You Are What You Eat: Tropicalismo and How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman. 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.