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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793552303321

Autore

Jones Nicholas R.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Penn State University Press, , 2019

ISBN

0-271-08392-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 222 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755 ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

792.0

Soggetti

African diaspora in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"An interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s"--Provided by publisher.