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  title info:
    title: Staging habla de negros
    sub title: radical performances of the African diaspora in early modern Spain
  name:
    name part: Jones, Nicholas R.
    name part: 1982-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 Calderón 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.
  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.
  note: Nicholas R. Jones.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-sp---
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Spain
    topic: African influences
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Spain
    topic: African influences
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Spain
    topic: African influences
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: African diaspora in literature
  classification: PN2782 .J66 2019
  classification: 792.0946
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Iberian encounter and exchange ; volume 3
  identifier: 9780271083469
  identifier: 0271083468
  identifier: 0271083476
  identifier: 9780271083476
  identifier: 2019005860
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190227
    record change date: 20210728154736.0
    record identifier: in00004420906