Celia Cussen

Black Saint of the Americas

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first scholarly study of the life of the black Peruvian saint, Martín de Porres (1579-1639).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9781108404174
• ISBN-10: 1108404170
• Artikelnr.: 47739857

Autorenporträt

Celia Cussen is an Associate Professor of History at Universidad de Chile, where she has worked since 2004, and focuses on colonial Latin American history. She holds a BA from Stanford University, California and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Cussen is the editor of Huellas de Africa en América, Perspectivas para Chile (2009) and the author of articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Colonial Latin American Historical Review. Her work has appeared in volumes edited in Peru, Chile, Italy and Argentina. She has been awarded fellowships and grants by the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Chilean government's Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Fondecyt).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Life: 1. Race and family
2. The convent and the colonial world
3. Healing and faith
4. Death and the heavenly transit
Part II. The Afterlife: 5. Creating a Vida from a life
6. The miracles
7. Images in black and white
8. Sainthood
Conclusion
Appendixes
Bibliography
Endnotes.