Nicholas 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.

“Cervantine Blackness compels us to look deeper and engage with Blackness in ways that disrupt conventional categories of race and genre. It is a call to rethink the ideological underpinnings of early modern literature and to reconsider who and how they are represented—both historically and in today’s scholarship. This book will undoubtedly have a lasting impact, broadening the scope of Cervantes studies and, by extension, early modern Spanish studies as a whole.”—Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez Sixteenth Century Journal

Nicholas 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.

“Cervantine Blackness compels us to look deeper and engage with Blackness in ways that disrupt conventional categories of race and genre. It is a call to rethink the ideological underpinnings of early modern literature and to reconsider who and how they are represented—both historically and in today’s scholarship. This book will undoubtedly have a lasting impact, broadening the scope of Cervantes studies and, by extension, early modern Spanish studies as a whole.”—Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez Sixteenth Century Journal

Nicholas 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.

“Cervantine Blackness compels us to look deeper and engage with Blackness in ways that disrupt conventional categories of race and genre. It is a call to rethink the ideological underpinnings of early modern literature and to reconsider who and how they are represented—both historically and in today’s scholarship. This book will undoubtedly have a lasting impact, broadening the scope of Cervantes studies and, by extension, early modern Spanish studies as a whole.”—Juan Manuel Ramírez Velázquez Sixteenth Century Journal