Larissa Brewer-Garcia (University of Chicago)

Beyond Babel

Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Afro-Latin America
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 319
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781108730303
• ISBN-10: 1108730302
• Artikelnr.: 63198746

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.