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uplo-11700-m-15-9780271099088030115978027109908801internal-reference117000610.1515/978027109908800EBE10710Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/0101Cervantine Blackness1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng002020323User DefinedLiterary Studies23User DefinedRomance Literature23User DefinedHispanic Literature23User DefinedHispanic Literature general12gender studies12literary criticism12intimacy12Critical Theory12Agency12African Diaspora12diaspora12Black Lives Matter12blackness12slavery12sexuality12Africa12queer12music12Don Quixote12Cervantes12Miguel de Cervantes12black women12early modernity12monuments12Early Modern12meditation12Critical Race Studies12Siglo de Oro12Francisco de Quevedo12snakes12queerness12critical fabulation12antiblackness12bandwagonism12BDSM12Canary Island12Cervantine Studies12frottage12Iberian Studies12ouroboros12Juan de Pareja12pearls12Seville12serpentine10LIT00428093DS931DSE931DSP010110300There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantine Blackness, Nicholas R. Jones reconsiders in what sense Black subjects possess an inherent value within Cervantes’s cultural purview and literary corpus.In this unflinching critique, Jones charts important new methodological and theoretical terrain, problematizing the ways emphasis on agency has stifled and truncated the study of Black Africans and their descendants in early modern Spanish cultural and literary production. Through the lens of what he calls “Cervantine Blackness,” Jones challenges the reader to think about the blind faith that has been lent to the idea of agency—and its analogues “presence” and “resistance”—as a primary motivation for examining the lives of Black people during this period. Offering a well-crafted and sharp critique, through a systematic deconstruction of deeply rooted prejudices, Jones establishes a solid foundation for the development of a new genre of literary and cultural criticism. A searing work of literary criticism and political debate, Cervantine Blackness speaks to specialists and nonspecialists alike—anyone with a serious interest in Cervantes’s work who takes seriously a critical reckoning with the cultural, historical, and literary legacies of agency, antiblackness, and refusal within the Iberian Peninsula and the global reaches of its empire.20200There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantine Blackness, Nicholas R. Jones reconsiders in what sense Black subjects possess an inherent value within Cervantes’s cultural purview and literary corpus.In this unflinching critique, Jones charts important new methodological and theoretical terrain, problematizing the ways emphasis on agency has stifled and truncated the study of Black Africans and their descendants in early modern Spanish cultural and literary production. Through the lens of what he calls “Cervantine Blackness,” Jones challenges the reader to think about the blind faith that has been lent to the idea of agency—and its analogues “presence” and “resistance”—as a primary motivation for examining the lives of Black people during this period. Offering a well-crafted and sharp critique, through a systematic deconstruction of deeply rooted prejudices, Jones establishes a solid foundation for the development of a new genre of literary and cultural criticism. A searing work of literary criticism and political debate, Cervantine Blackness speaks to specialists and nonspecialists alike—anyone with a serious interest in Cervantes’s work who takes seriously a critical reckoning with the cultural, historical, and literary legacies of agency, antiblackness, and refusal within the Iberian Peninsula and the global reaches of its empire.30400Frontmatter Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Meditation 1 Meditation 2 Meditation 3 Meditation 4 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index43000There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantine Blackness, Nicholas R. Jones reconsiders in what sense Black subjects possess an inherent value within Cervantes’s cultural purview and literary corpus.In this unflinching critique, Jones charts important new methodological and theoretical terrain, problematizing the ways emphasis on agency has stifled and truncated the study of Black Africans and their descendants in early modern Spanish cultural and literary production. Through the lens of what he calls “Cervantine Blackness,” Jones challenges the reader to think about the blind faith that has been lent to the idea of agency—and its analogues “presence” and “resistance”—as a primary motivation for examining the lives of Black people during this period. Offering a well-crafted and sharp critique, through a systematic deconstruction of deeply rooted prejudices, Jones establishes a solid foundation for the development of a new genre of literary and cultural criticism. A searing work of literary criticism and political debate, Cervantine Blackness speaks to specialists and nonspecialists alike—anyone with a serious interest in Cervantes’s work who takes seriously a critical reckoning with the cultural, historical, and literary legacies of agency, antiblackness, and refusal within the Iberian Peninsula and the global reaches of its empire.52000Open Access01000302https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-uplo/files/media/cover_images/2d735d90-ba38-4911-921b-dbf4a51170f9.jpg1030610.1515/9780271099088-fmCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Frontmatter1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access2030610.1515/9780271099088-tocCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Contents1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access3030610.1515/9780271099088-001Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101List of Illustrations1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access4030610.1515/9780271099088-002Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Acknowledgments1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access5030610.1515/9780271099088-003Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Prologue1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access6030610.1515/9780271099088-004Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Meditation 11A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access7030610.1515/9780271099088-005Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Meditation 21A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access8030610.1515/9780271099088-006Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Meditation 31A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access9030610.1515/9780271099088-007Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Meditation 41A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access10030610.1515/9780271099088-008Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Epilogue1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access11030610.1515/9780271099088-009Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Notes1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access12030610.1515/9780271099088-010Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Bibliography1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access13030610.1515/9780271099088-011Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Chapter0101Index1A01Nicholas R. JonesNicholas R.JonesNicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of the prize-winning Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain, also published by Penn State University Press, and coeditor of Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology and Pornographic Sensibilities: Imagining Sex and the Visceral in Premodern and Early Modern Spanish Cultural Production.01eng12000Open Access01URLhttps://www.psupress.org/Penn State University Press01Penn State University Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://uplopen.com02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://uplopen.com/books/m/10.1515/9780271099088University Park, PA, USA040120241017The Author(s)02WORLDWORLD11Unknown36Supplier’s website for a specified workhttps://uplopen.com29Supplier’s website: download the titlehttps://uplopen.com/books/11700/files/d6d7fd36-f579-459c-b68f-964df9fe8a70.pdf20082024101701