Cotton Mather?s Spanish Lessons
Author: Gruesz, Kirsten Silva
ISBN: 9780674971752
RM270.73
Publisher,Belknap Pr
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight,
No. of Pages, 326
In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at evangelizing readers across the Spanish Americas. Kirsten Silva Gruesz uses Mather's text to explore complex overlaps of race, ethnicity, and language in the early Americas, which continue to govern Latina/o/x belonging today--
