Beyond Babel - Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada

This analysis of writings about the experiences of black Christians in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada shows that black linguistic and spiritual intermediaries bridged divisions among the populations implicated in the slave trade, exerting influence over colonial Spanish American writings and racial hierarchies in the Atlantic world.

List of contents

Introduction: Linguistic and Spiritual Mediations in the Earlier; Black Atlantic; 1. Black Types between Renaissance Humanism and Iberian Counter Reformation Theology; 2. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Spanish American Missionary Translation Policy; 3. The Mediations of Black Interpreters in Colonial Cartagena de Indias; 4. Conversion and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Cartagena de Indias; 5. Salvation and the Making Blackness in Colonial Lima: Úrsula de Jesús.

About the author

Larissa Brewer-García is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Chicago.

Summary

This analysis of writings about the experiences of black Christians in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada shows that black linguistic and spiritual intermediaries bridged divisions among the populations implicated in the slave trade, exerting influence over colonial Spanish American writings and racial hierarchies in the Atlantic world.

Product details

• Authors: Larissa (University of Chicago) Brewer-Garcia, Larissa Brewer-García
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781108730303
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73030-3
• No. of pages: 319
• Series: Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Latin America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Colonialism & imperialism, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Empires & historical states, Colonialism and imperialism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, C 1600 To C 1700, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Historical states, empires, territories and regions