Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 September 2024
- ISBN 9780198914228
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages330 pages
- Size 240x162x23 mm
- Weight 664 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 black and white illustrations 543
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Short description:
Diana Berruezo-Sánchez recovers key chapters in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas by exploring the literary contributions and life experiences of black African communities and individuals in early modern Spain. Examining a range of texts and creators, Berruezo-Sánchez opens up space for early modern black poets in the Spanish literary canon.
MoreLong description:
In this groundbreaking study, Diana Berruezo-Sánchez recovers key chapters in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas by exploring the literary contributions and life experiences of black African communities and individuals in early modern Spain. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, international trade involving chattel slavery led to significant populations of enslaved, free(d), and half-manumitted black African women, men, and children in the Iberian Peninsula. These demographic changes transformed Spain's urban and social landscapes.
In exploring Spain's role in the transatlantic slave trade and its effects on cultural forms of the period, Berruezo-Sánchez examines a broad range of texts and unearths new documents relating to black African poets, performers, and black confraternities. Her discoveries evince the broad yet largely disregarded literary and artistic impact of the African diaspora in early modern Spain, expanding the scope of linguistic practices beyond habla de negros and creating space for early modern black poets in the Spanish literary canon.
These textual sources challenge established understandings of black Africans and black African history in early modern Spain. They show how black Africans exerted significant cultural agency by collectively contributing to and shaping the literary texts of the period, including those of the popular genre villancicos de negros, and by developing artistic traditions as musicians, dancers, and poets. As both creators and consumers of cultural forms, black African men and women navigated a restrictive, coercive slave society yet negotiated their own physical and cultural spaces.
Thoroughly documented, Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750 stands at the forefront of new publications that recover, in one sense, and, in another sense, shed light on the political and socio-cultural import of enslavement and of the enslaved in non-European diasporic communities.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations
Introduction
Revisiting Histories, Rethinking Spaces
Beyond the Eye of the Beholder: Black Africans in Early Modern Spanish Literary Texts
Performing Blackness: Villancicos de Negros and Other Religious Spectacles
Spaces of Cultural Negotiation in Early Modern Spain: Music and Dance in the Street, in Courts, and on Board Ships
The Intangible Poetic Legacy of Black Voices
Conclusions
Appendix A: A List of Early Modern Spanish Literary Texts with Black Characters
Appendix B: A Catalogue of Black Stereotypes in Seventeenth-Century Villancicos de Negros Performed in Spain
Appendix C: Fourteen New Villancicos de Negros
Appendix D: Jácara de sucesos about Francisco de Meneses (1687)
Bibliography
Index
