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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gruesz, Kirsten Silva, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Fe del Christiano.

Mather, Cotton.

Literature and race--America--History--18th century.

Literature and race.

Christian literature, Spanish--18th century.

Christian literature, Spanish.

Ethnicity--America--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Ethnicity.

Ethnicity--America--History--18th century.

Evangelistic work--America--History--18th century.

Evangelistic work.

Ethnicity in literature.

Ethnicity--Religious aspects--Christianity.

America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.

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.

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 eighteenth-century frontiers

The shipwreck of the family design

Coda: colonial lessons in Latinidad

Transcription and translation of Cotton Mater's La fe del Christiano (1699).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780674971752

0674971752

OCLC:

1266221896

Publisher Number:

40031214034