Black bride of Christ : Chicaba, an African nun in eighteenth-century Spain / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Sue E. Houchins and Baltasar Fra-Molinero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pan y Agua, Juan Carlos, author.

Contributor:

Houchins, Sue E., editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Fra Molinero, Baltasar, editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Standardized Title:

Compendio de la vida ejemplar de la Venerable Madre Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, madre, 1676-1748.

Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo.

Nuns--Spain--Biography.

Nuns.

Dominican sisters.

Spain.

Guinea.

Dominican sisters--Spain--Biography.

Nuns--Guinea--Biography.

Dominican sisters--Guinea--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 307 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"A saint's life and a slave narrative, this English translation of The Exemplary Life of Sister Teresa Juliana, née Chicaba, recounts her capture in West Africa, kidnapping to Spain, enslavement in the household of nobility, and emancipation to live as a Dominican religious. Introductory essays explain the historical, literary, cultural, religious, and African Diasporic contexts of her lifestory"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pan y Agua, Juan Carlos. Black bride of Christ.

ISBN:

9780826521033

0826521037

9780826521040

0826521045

OCLC:

921867763