Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Gebundenes Buch

Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons

A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas

Beschreibung

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 Matherâ s text to explore complex overlaps of race, ethnicity, and language in the early Americas, which continue to govern Latina/o/x belonging today.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780674971752
• ISBN-10: 0674971752
• Artikelnr.: 62580070