Staging Habla de Negros : : Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain / / Nicholas R. Jones.

In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue.Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2019
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755 ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 15 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface. Talking Black in Spanish
  • Acknowledgments
  • Translating Blackness. An Editorial Note on Translations
  • Introduction: The Habla de Negros Palimpsest; Theorizing Habla de Negros
  • 1. Black Skin Acts: Feasting on Blackness, Staging Linguistic Blackface
  • 2. The Birth of Hispanic Habla de Negros: Signifying for the Black Audience in Rodrigo de Reinosa
  • 3. Black Divas, Black Feminisms: The Black Female Body and Habla de Negros in Lope de Rueda
  • Afterword: B(l)ack to the Future; The Postmodern Legacy of Habla de Negros, or Talking in Tongues
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index