Cotton Mathers Spanish Lessons - A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas

In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at evangelizing readers across the Spanish Americas. Kirsten Silva Gruesz uses Mather's text to explore complex overlaps of race, ethnicity, and language in the early Americas, which continue to govern Latina/o/x belonging today.

About the author

Kirsten Silva Gruesz is a leading expert on Spanish-language print culture in the United States and the author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing. She is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Summary

In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at evangelizing readers across the Spanish Americas. Kirsten Silva Gruesz uses Mather’s text to explore complex overlaps of race, ethnicity, and language in the early Americas, which continue to govern Latina/o/x belonging today.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Gruesz Kirsten Silva
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780674971752
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97175-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / General, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Religion & beliefs, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Religion and beliefs, Literature: history and criticism