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

ISBN-13: 9781108493000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 321 str.

Larissa Brewer-Garcia

Opis

Examines how black intermediaries in colonial Spanish America influenced written portrayals of virtuous and beautiful blackness.

Recenzje

'Beyond Babel is an excellent read, and via extensive archival research, comparative literature, and visual culture study, Brewer-García sheds light on the role of Black intermediaries in shaping the early modern world.' Elena Fitzpatrick Sifford, Hispanic American Historical Review

Spis treści

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.