Title Cotton Mather's Spanish lessons a story of language, race, and belonging in the early Americas Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Published Cambridge London The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: The first Spanish imprint in English America -- The global ambitions of a Creole family -- Telling the future of America Mexicana -- From language encounters to language rights -- Becoming a Spanish Indian -- Teaching by catechism and conversation -- Books as keys to the Spanish tongue -- Impressing the word in exotic types -- Racial fears on Franco-Spanish frontiers -- The shipwreck of the family design -- Coda: colonial lessons in Latinidad Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Fe del Christiano Literature and race -- America -- History -- 18th century Christian literature, Spanish -- 18th century Ethnicity -- America -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Ethnicity -- America -- History -- 18th century Evangelistic work -- America -- History -- 18th century Ethnicity in literature. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) Christian literature, Spanish Ethnicity Ethnicity in literature Ethnicity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Evangelistic work Literature and race America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0674275683 9780674275683

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