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...

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1. Verfasser:	Gruesz, Kirsten Silva 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press [2022]
Schlagworte:	Mather, Cotton > 1663-1728 Kulturkontakt Spanisch Mission Amerika Mather, Cotton / 1663-1728 / Fe del Christiano Literature and race / America / History / 18th century Christian literature, Spanish / 18th century Ethnicity / America / Religious aspects / Christianity Ethnicity / America / History / 18th century Evangelistic work / America / History / 18th century Ethnicity in literature
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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.

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

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