Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750

Diana Berruezo-Sánchez is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she held full-time positions for six years. Her research focuses on the cultural productions of Afro-Iberian diasporas in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has obtained funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the John Fell Fund, the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute, the Newberry Library, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and the European Research Council to lead interdisciplinary research projects. She has conducted research in Spain, Italy, the US, and the UK.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Translations Introduction 1: Revisiting Histories, Rethinking Spaces 2: Beyond the Eye of the Beholder: Black Africans in Early Modern Spanish Literary Texts 3: Performing Blackness: Villancicos de Negros and Other Religious Spectacles 4: Spaces of Cultural Negotiation in Early Modern Spain: Music and Dance in the Street, in Courts, and on Board Ships 5: The Intangible Poetic Legacy of Black Voices Conclusions Appendix A: A List of Early Modern Spanish Literary Texts with Black Characters Appendix B: A Catalogue of Black Stereotypes in Seventeenth-Century Villancicos de Negros Performed in Spain Appendix C: Fourteen New Villancicos de Negros Appendix D: Jácara de sucesos about Francisco de Meneses (1687) Bibliography Index

Thoroughly documented, Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750 stands at the forefront of new publications that recover, in one sense, and, in another sense, shed light on the political and socio-cultural import of enslavement and of the enslaved in non-European diasporic communities.