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Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Difference

1987; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/468731

1080-661X

José Piedra,

Early Modern Spanish Literature

OURTEEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO should remind Hispanics of the publication of the first grammar of a modern European language, a fact overshadowed in historical records by the unification of the Spanish nation, the purification of infidels, and the launching of the New World adventure. Antonio de Nebrija's work billed the Castilian dialect as the companion of the Empire, an appropriate grammatical endorsement of Spain's ethnic assertion, religious and racial bigotry, as well as the ultimate civilized weapon for political expansionism among the illiterate.4 Spanish grammar became the colonial pretext for the assimilation of otherness and others. Imperial grammarians established a test of literacy for Hispanic citizenship, which, if successfully passed, allegedly provided of-