Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons : : A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas / / Kirsten Silva Gruesz.
A sweeping history of linguistic and colonial encounter in the early Americas, anchored by the unlikely story of how Boston’s most famous Puritan came to write the first Spanish-language publication in the English New World. The Boston minister Cotton Mather was the first English colonial to refer t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Style
- I. Introduction: The First Spanish Imprint in English America
- II. The Global Designs of a Creole Family
- III. Telling the Future of America Mexicana
- IV. From Language Encounters to Language Rights
- V. Becoming a Spanish Indian
- VI. Teaching by Catechism and Conversation
- VII. Books as Keys to the Spanish Tongue
- VIII. Impressing the Word in Exotic Types
- IX. Racial Fears on Eighteenth-Century Frontiers
- X. The Shipwreck of the Family Design
- XI. Coda: Colonial Lessons in Latinidad
- XII. Transcription and Translation of Cotton Mather’s La Fe del Christiano (1699)
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index