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Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons - A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas (Hardcover)
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Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons - A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas (Hardcover)
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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 to himself as an American. He was
also the first to author a Spanish-language publication: La Fe del
Christiano (The Faith of the Christian), a Protestant tract
intended to evangelize readers across the Spanish Americas. Kirsten
Silva Gruesz explores the conditions that produced La Fe del
Christiano, from the intimate story of the "Spanish Indian"
servants in Mather's household, to the fragile business of printing
and bookselling, to the fraught overlaps of race, ethnicity, and
language that remain foundational to ideas of Latina/o/x belonging
in the United States today. Mather's Spanish project exemplifies
New England's entanglement within a partially Spanish Catholic,
largely Indigenous New World. British Americans viewed Spanish not
only as a set of linguistic practices, but also as the hallmark of
a rival empire and a nascent racial-ethnic category. Guided by
Mather's tract, Gruesz explores English settlers' turbulent
contacts with the people they called "Spanish Indians," as well as
with Black and local native peoples. Tracing colonial encounters
from Boston to Mexico, Florida, and the Caribbean, she argues that
language learning was intimately tied with the formation of new
peoples. Even as Spanish has become the de facto second language of
the United States, the story of La Fe del Christiano remains timely
and illuminating, locating the roots of latinidad in the colonial
system of the early Americas. Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons
reinvents our understanding of a key colonial intellectual,
revealing notions about language and the construction of race that
endure to this day.
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