Description:
An interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s.
Brief description: Nicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Bucknell University.
Review Quotes:
"This compelling study offers many fresh insights into the literary reception of African-Iberian speech performance and recovers depictions that previous scholarship derided as hopelessly biased or monologic. It utilizes these depictions to read not just the formation of early modern black subjectivities but also the role they played in defining the hegemonic order under which these were crafted and codified. Jones directs critical attention to multiple stagings of subaltern performance by Blacks, Africans, and Ibero-Africans as well as their instrumental roles in the formation of early modern global empires."
--Israel Burshatin, Haverford College