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Author:

Gruesz, Kirsten Silva, 1964- author.

Title:

Cotton Mather's Spanish lessons : a story of language, race, and belonging in the early Americas / Kirsten Silva Gruesz.

Publisher:

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

1 volume : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Mather, Cotton,--1663-1728.--Fe del Christiano.
Literature and race--America--History--18th century.
Christian literature, Spanish--18th century.
Ethnicity--America--Christianity.--Christianity.
Ethnicity--America--History--18th century.
Evangelistic work--America--History--18th century.
Ethnicity in literature.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction: The first Spanish imprint in English America -- The global ambitions of a Creole family -- Telling the future of America Mexicana -- From language encounters to language rights -- Becoming a Spanish Indian -- Teaching by catechism and conversation -- Books as keys to the Spanish tongue -- Impressing the word in exotic types -- Racial fears on Franco-Spanish frontiers -- The shipwreck of the family design -- Coda: colonial lessons in Latinidad.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0674971752
9780674971752

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1266221896

LCCN:

2021047482

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)