Columbus the haunted : the diary of the first voyage and William Carlos Williams's "The discovery of the Indies" -- Indigenous atextualizations : the Popol Vuh and I, Rigoberta Menchú: an Indian woman in Guatemala -- Castaway Colonialism : Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Account -- Apparitions of Africa : Leoncio Evita's When the combes fought and José Martí's Our America -- Subjunctive America : Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the time of cholera