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:
"Nicholas R. Jones challenges conventional boundaries of literary form, critical argument, and scholarly engagement. He compels early modern scholars to rethink not only the representation of Blackness, but also the ways in which an interdisciplinary approach reshapes our reading of Cervantes and early modern literature. Whether one is deeply immersed in Cervantes studies, or is simply curious about how scholarship within early modern literature can evolve, Cervantine Blackness is a necessary and transformative read."
--Shannon Polchow Hispania