• Front Matter
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    • Table of Contents
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    • Acknowledgments
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    • Introduction and background
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    • Narrative accounts of the encounter and conquest
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    • The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries:: Literary Life in the Colonies
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    • The Struggle for Nationhood and the Rise of Fiction
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    • The Mid-Nineteenth Century:: Romanticism, Realism, and Nationalism
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    • Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Social Commentary and National Self-Reflection
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    • Naturalism and Modernismo
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    • Conclusion:: Then and Now
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    • Notes
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    • Selected Bibliography
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    • Index
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