Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons
Author: Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2022-07-05
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0674971752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
