Naufragios

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exploration chronicle literary work travel narrative

Naufragios is a 16th-century narrative by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca recounting his shipwreck, survival, and extensive travels across the Americas, and is considered one of the earliest and most important chronicles of Spanish exploration in the New World.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Naufragios (Shipwrecks) by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	exploration chronicle ⓘ literary work ⓘ travel narrative ⓘ
author	Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Spain ⓘ
describesEvent	Narváez expedition NERFINISHED ⓘ captivity among indigenous groups ⓘ healing rituals performed by the survivors ⓘ overland trek across North America ⓘ shipwreck on the Gulf Coast ⓘ
featuresCharacter	Alonso del Castillo Maldonado NERFINISHED ⓘ Andrés Dorantes de Carranza NERFINISHED ⓘ Estevanico NERFINISHED ⓘ Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	autobiographical narrative ⓘ exploration literature ⓘ shipwreck narrative ⓘ
hasForm	prose ⓘ
historicalValue	early account of the interior of North America ⓘ ethnographic information on indigenous cultures ⓘ
literaryMovement	early colonial literature of the Americas ⓘ
literaryPeriod	Spanish Golden Age NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainSubject	Spanish exploration of the New World ⓘ captivity and enslavement ⓘ indigenous peoples of the Americas NERFINISHED ⓘ religious faith and miracles ⓘ shipwreck of the Narváez expedition NERFINISHED ⓘ survival in North America ⓘ
narrativeMode	chronicle ⓘ
narrativePerspective	first-person ⓘ
originalLanguage	Spanish ⓘ
placeDescribed	Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ Gulf of Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ interior of North America ⓘ northern Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ
significance	foundational text of Spanish American colonial literature ⓘ important source on early contact between Europeans and indigenous peoples in North America ⓘ one of the earliest chronicles of Spanish exploration in the New World ⓘ
theme	adaptation to indigenous life ⓘ cultural encounter ⓘ religious conversion and providence ⓘ slavery and freedom ⓘ suffering and endurance ⓘ survival ⓘ
timePeriodDescribed	1527–1536 ⓘ 16th century ⓘ

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca → notableWork → Naufragios ⓘ

Pánfilo de Narváez expedition of 1528 → documentedIn → Naufragios ⓘ

this entity surface form: Naufragios (Shipwrecks) by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca