In this talk, Jones will look at cultural history and literary study of white appropriations of black African voices in Portuguese and Spanish texts from the 1500s through 1700s, a span of time when the composition and performance of Africanized Iberian languages were in vogue. A study in genre, performance, and a critique of ideology, this talk uses early modern and colonial literary and non-literary texts from Portugal, Spain, and their transoceanic colonial territories to make claims for and theorize the existence of the formation of black diasporic life and identity across the Luso-Hispanic imperial world.
