In this sweeping study , Thomas O. Beebee explores literary treatments of the end of the world in a wide array of English, French and Spanish works to appear over the course of a five-hundred year span throughout the Americas. He provides nuanced readings of the apocalyptic vision in an eclectic group of resources, ranging from letters of Christopher Columbus to the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, to the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal Martinez and the bestselling
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