Staging Habla de negros : radical performances of the African diaspora in early modern Spain

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 theate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Nicholas R., 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Series:Iberian encounter and exchange, 475-1755 ; vol. 3.
Subjects:
1500-1799
Theater > Spain > African influences > History > 16th century.
Theater > Spain > African influences > History > 17th century.
Theater > Spain > African influences > History > 18th century.
African diaspora in literature.
Performing arts.
performing arts (discipline)
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
African diaspora in literature
Spain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the habla de negros palimpsest, theorizing habla de negros
  • Black skin acts : feasting on blackness, staging linguistic blackface
  • The birth of hispanic habla de negros : signifying for the black audience in Rodrigo de Reinosa
  • 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.

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