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Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two
fields-Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn Studies-that
traditionally have had little to say to each other. The collection
offers innovative new approaches to the study of gendered and
sexualized bodies in medieval and early modern textual production,
including literary and historical documents. The volume's embrace
of the interpretative tools of Porn Studies also inscribes a
critical provocation: in what ways can contemporary modes of
reading the past serve to freshly illuminate not only the contours
of that same past but also the very critical assumptions of the
present upon which fields like medieval and early modern Hispanic
Studies are built? In this way, Pornographic Sensibilities
encourages at once both rigorous historicizations of pre- and
early-modern culture, and playful engagement with "presentism,"
considered here as a critical tool to undress the hidden
assumptions of both past and present. This move substantively
challenges long-held critical orthodoxies among scholars of
pre-Enlightenment periods, for whom the very category of
"pornography" itself has often problematically been framed as an
anachronism when applied to their work.
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two
fields-Early Modern Studies and Black Studies-that traditionally
have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the
product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival
evidence that limits what we can say about those of African descent
before modernity. This volume posits that the limitations are not
in the archives, but in the methods we have constructed for
locating and examining those archives. The essays that make up this
volume offer new critical approaches to black African agency and
the conceptualization of blackness in early modern literary works,
historical documents, material and visual cultures, and performance
culture. Ultimately, this critical anthology revises current
understandings about racial discourse and the cultural
contributions of black Africans in early modernity and in the
present across the globe.
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two
fields-Early Modern Studies and Black Studies-that traditionally
have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the
product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival
evidence that limits what we can say about those of African descent
before modernity. This volume posits that the limitations are not
in the archives, but in the methods we have constructed for
locating and examining those archives. The essays that make up this
volume offer new critical approaches to black African agency and
the conceptualization of blackness in early modern literary works,
historical documents, material and visual cultures, and performance
culture. Ultimately, this critical anthology revises current
understandings about racial discourse and the cultural
contributions of black Africans in early modernity and in the
present across the globe.
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 performative poetry from
authors such as Calderon de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de
Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long
held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations
and representations of habla de negros language are "racist
buffoonery" or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters
who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire
of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation
with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how
black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early
modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts.
Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones's
groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros
animated black Africans' agency, empowered their resistance, and
highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book
on identity building, performance, and race will captivate
audiences across disciplines.
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 performative poetry from
authors such as Calderon de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de
Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long
held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations
and representations of habla de negros language are "racist
buffoonery" or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters
who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire
of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation
with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how
black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early
modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts.
Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones's
groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros
animated black Africans' agency, empowered their resistance, and
highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book
on identity building, performance, and race will captivate
audiences across disciplines.
The sermon as crafted by the early New England preachers was the
most prominent literary form of its day, yet the earliest Puritan
texts have as a rule been available only in rare-book collections.
This anthology of sermons of the first generation of preachers
fills a serious gap in American literature. The preachers collected
here, the most widely published of their time, were among the
eighty or more who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay during the 1630s.
They are John Cotton of Boston, Thomas Shepard of Cambridge, and
Thomas Hooker of Hartford, the three foremost "lights of the
western churches," and two eminent colleagues, Peter Bulkeley of
Concord and John Davenport, first of New Haven and later of Boston.
The selections are chosen to be representative of the lengthy works
from which they are drawn, to reflect the major concerns and styles
of the preachers' work as a whole, and to demonstrate the genre of
the sermon as developed by the early American Puritans. Not only
does this anthology represent an important contribution to literary
history, but the sermons also illustrate a doctrine uniquely
elaborated in this period-a consistent and emphatic narrative,
mythlike in its repetition and heroics, of the progress of the soul
from a state of nature to a state of salvation. This theme may be
seen as a three-stage-development, although individual sermons may
vary. These stages-preparation, vocation, and
regeneration-determine the order of the selections. The editors'
introductory material supplies a comprehensive and thorough
discussion of the early New England sermons, concentrating on their
role, history, structure, style, and subject matter. A separate
essay on the texts of the sermons describes the relationship
between the early printed versions and their form as delivered in
the pulpit. The introduction preceding each selection presents
original research on the historical circumstances of the preaching
and publication of the work from which the sermon is drawn. The
editors have also provided brief biographies of the preacfiers
represented here, an annotated list of recommended background
reading, and the most exhaustive checklist available of
authoritative editions of the sermons of these five preachers. This
book will be useful to colonial specialists as well as to students
of early American literature, religion, and history. The texts are
critically edited for readability, with modernized spelling and
annotations of unfamiliar phrases and allusions.
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