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Staging habla de negros : radical performances of the African diaspora in early modern Spain / Nicholas R. Jones.
LIBRA PN2782 .J66 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Nicholas R., 1982- author.
- Series:
- Iberian encounter and exchange, 475-1755 ; vol. 3.
- Iberian encounter and exchange, 475-1755 ; vol. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Spain--African influences--History--16th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--Spain--African influences--History--17th century.
- Theater--Spain--African influences--History--18th century.
- African diaspora in literature.
- History.
- Spain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "An interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the habla de negros palimpsest, theorizing habla de negros
- Black skin acts : feasting on blackness, staging linguistic blackface
- The birth of hispanic habla de negros : signifying for the black audience in Rodrigo de Reinosa
- Black divas, black feminisms : the black female body and habla de negros in Lope de Rueda
- Afterword : b(l)ack to the future; the postmodern legacy of habla de negros, or talking in tongues.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-212) and index.
- Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Winner, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780271083469
- 0271083468
- OCLC:
- 1054374014
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