Description: "Uses a close reading of the work of Miguel de Cervantes to critically examine the default approaches to the exploration, and exploitation, of Black bodies, Black characters, and Black content in early modern Spanish cultural and literary criticism"--
Brief description: Nicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.
Review Quotes:
"Cervantine Blackness is a homily. Jones forces readers to reckon with the perils of frameworks that flatten Black people into caricatures that appease white imperial and slavocratic sensibilities. The good news is Jones does not leave us despondent. Incorporating the dynamism of critical Black studies into Cervantine studies, Jones offers theories of Blackness that makes room for characters to move in undulating complexity. This book is an edifying sermon for honest, diligent, and creative thinkers."
--Todne Thomas, author of Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality