{"title":"Black Festive Practices in the Early Modern Iberian World: Sources and Challenges","authors":"Miguel A. Valerio","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2246796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2246796","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn the early-modern Iberian world, people of African descent engaged in festive practices both in isolation and as part of wider religious and civic communities. Based on contemporary chronicles, festival accounts and visual sources, our knowledge of these practices remains partial, both because contemporary writers and artists were largely non-Black and because these authors and artists inscribed these traditions within the Eurocentric exotic genre. In this article, I turn to festival accounts, government reports and visual sources, discuss the challenges and opportunities they present and develop diasporic, transgeographic and transtemporal methodologies allowing us to identify continuities across the Afro-Iberian diaspora. Notes1 Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (manuscrito ‘Guatemala’) (1632), ed. José Antonio Barbón Rodríguez (México D.F.: Colegio de México/UNAM, 2005), Chapter 201, 755. The original manuscript had ‘más de çiento y çinquenta’ (Historia verdadera, ed. Barbón Rodríguez, 755, note 5; emphasis added). Díaz del Castillo, writing some fifty years after the events he describes, later crosses out ‘çiento y’. On the Indigenous elements of these festivities, see Patricia Lopes Don, ‘Carnivals, Triumphs, and Rain Gods in the New World: A Civic Festival in the City of México-Tenochtitlán in 1539’, Colonial Latin American Review, 6:1 (1997), 17–40.2 This armistice ended the second of the three Italian Wars (1521–1526, 1536–1538 and 1542–1546) sparked by Charles V’s election as Holy Roman Emperor. This ceasefire was significant for New Spain (as colonial Mexico was then known) because the Emperor’s war with France had caused instability in the viceroyalty. See David Porter, Renaissance France at War: Armies, Culture and Society, c.1480–1560 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008), 30–37.3 The most famous example is Estebanico in Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios (1542).4 Andrés Pérez de Rivas, Corronica y historia religiosa de la provincia de la Compañia de Jesús de Mexico en Nueva España, 2 vols (Ciudad de México: Sagrado Corazón, 1896), I, 250–51.5 Peter Mason, Infelicities: Representations of the Exotic (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. P., 1998), 40.6 On autoethnography in this performative tradition, see Miguel A. Valerio, Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1540 (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 2022), Chapter 3.7 On early modern Black Christian identity, see, for example, Chloe Ireton, ‘ “They Are Blacks of the Caste of Black Christians”: Old Christian Black Blood in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Iberian Atlantic’, Hispanic American Historical Review, 97:4 (2017), 579–612. On Afropolitanism, see Achille Mbembe, ‘Afropolitanism’, Nka, 46 (2020), 56–61.8 ‘Requerimento dos Pretos devotos da S[enhora] do Rosario da Bahia’, Bahia, 1786, Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Bahia, cx. 71, doc. 12235 (cota antiga), s.f.; English translation available, in Patricia A. Mulve","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134975535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endless Proliferations of Signifiers: Mexican Cultural Studies in the Future Tense","authors":"Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2247708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2247708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135826589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘A Web of Complex Relations’: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Botany and <i>Sab</i> (1841)","authors":"Catherine Davies","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2247305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2247305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cinetextos, logoemesis y textovisualidades de las autoras digitales españolas","authors":"Daniel Escandell Montiel","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2247304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2247304","url":null,"abstract":"El uso de la escritura como objeto artístico escribe su propia historia en los medios digitales gracias a la interacción con el receptor de la obra, que es lector y usuario. A través, fundamentalmente, de los marcos de referencia de la logofagia y la logoemesis abordamos el espacio del arte textovisual interactivo. Con ello afrontamos un corpus seleccionado y representativo de autoras digitales en lengua española, lo que es también un acto reivindicativo intrínseco: sus obras son relevantes y significativas como práctica tecnoartística y literaria, aunque en ocasiones han sido obviadas por su género.","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135826450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cinema, Genealogy, History: Mariano Ozores and Pedro Almodóvar, Mario Camus and Manolo Caro","authors":"Paul Julian Smith","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2246795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2246795","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identity, Remembrance and the Question of Queer Becoming: Juana de la Cruz’s Sermon on the Legend of St Bartholomew","authors":"A. Beresford","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2229170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2229170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41687903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lengua y texto literario en la construcción de una cultura nacional-popular: Eduardo Blanco-Amor, de Galicia Emigrante a A Esmorga","authors":"Pablo García Martínez","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2222613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2222613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45957993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Picaresque and Historical Novel: Questions of Identity, Social Criticism and Persecution in 1492: Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla by Homero Aridjis","authors":"Andrea Hepworth","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2218161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2218161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46966364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Realidad y ficción en Insolación de Emilia Pardo Bazán","authors":"Carlos Feal","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2226025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2226025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43663305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modalidad y postura efectiva en el discurso público sobre migración irregular","authors":"Marina Díaz-Peralta","doi":"10.1080/14753820.2023.2221589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2221589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43461,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46159822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}