Foreshadowing Failure
Mulatto and Black Oral Discourse and the Upending of The Western Design in Thomas Gage’s A New Survey (1648)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9861463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monica Styles (0000-0003-1953-1760, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 583-600 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/hpn.2019.0105 |
| OpenAlex | W2995453639 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
Thomas Gage wrote A New Survey of the West Indies or, The English American his Travel by Sea and Land (1648) with the aim to convince Oliver Cromwell that the English could successfully invade Spanish held American territories. The English attempt to invade the Spanish colonies in 1655 would not garner non-Whites' unwavering aid, which is a decisive factor in the Western Design's failure. Although subalterns in the region rebelled against Spanish hegemony, they were by no means in constant revolt as Gage suggested. They had also carved out an integral place within Spanish American society and culture. Mulattos are subaltern agents whose defining role in the Western Design's collapse has not been considered sufficiently. Though they were Afro-descendants, Mulattos were racially ambiguous tricksters who disturbed hierarchies. Mulattos sought autonomy by forming alliances with Europeans—be they Spanish, English, French or Dutch—as well as with Amerindian communities, to the extent that these relationships afforded them relative autonomy within hierarchical colonial power structures. Mulattos' oral and embodied discourses within Gage's text exemplify their agency and shifting alliances
Agency (philosophy) · Archaeology · Autonomy · Colonialism · Ethnology · Hegemony · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
Silencing the Past
Beyond Bondage
Strangers in Blood
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
Print, religion and identity
Nharas and Morenas Horras
If Cahonaboa learns to speak
En su tierra lo aprendio ́
Sexuality & Marriage in Colonial Latin America
The English American on the Spanish Galleons
Thomas Gage's Travels in the New World
Africans in the Spanish colonies
Thomas Gage and the English Colonial Encounter with Chocolate
Oliver Cromwell and the ‘Cromwellian’ Settlement of Ireland
The Cromwellian Protectorate and the languages of empire
Black Conquistadors
On the Trail of Voodoo
Du bon usage de la monstruosité
Public Ceremonies and Mulatto Identity in Viceregal Lima
Talking Through the Chest
To Avoid This Mixture
Revisiting the Past and Roberto Fernández Retamar's Calibán
Providence and Politics in Cromwellian England
Ecué's Atlantic
Errand to the Indies
Thomas Gage in Spanish America
Aristocrats and Traders
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |