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

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...

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Main Author: Gruesz, Kirsten Silva, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2022].
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505 0 |a 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 Franco-Spanish frontiers -- The shipwreck of the family design -- Coda: colonial lessons in Latinidad. 
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