Title Beyond Babel : translations of blackness in colonial Peru and New Granada / Larissa Brewer-García, University of Chicago

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrations Series Afro-Latin America Afro-Latin America. Contents Introduction : linguistic and spiritual mediations in the earlier Black Atlantic -- Black types between Renaissance humanism and Iberian counter Reformation theology -- The transatlantic slave trade and Spanish American missionary translation policy -- The mediations of black interpreters in colonial Cartagena de Indias -- Conversion and the making of blackness in colonial Cartagena de Indias -- Salvation and the making of blackness in colonial Cartagena de Indias: Úrsula de Jesús -- Coda : negros literarios -- Appendix A: Whether Jesuits should learn Kimbundu in Peru (ca. 1635) -- Appendix B: from Andrés Sacacuche's (sic) Testimony in Pedro Claver's beatification inquest (Proceso 1676) Summary In seventeenth-century Spanish America, black linguistic interpreters and spiritual intermediaries played key roles in the production of writings about black men and women. Focusing on the African diaspora in Peru and the southern continental Caribbean, Larissa Brewer-García uncovers long-ignored or lost archival materials describing the experiences of black Christians in the transatlantic slave trade and the colonial societies where they arrived. Brewer-García's analysis of these materials shows that black intermediaries bridged divisions among the populations implicated in the slave trade, exerting influence over colonial Spanish American writings and emerging racial hierarchies in the Atlantic world. The translated portrayals of blackness composed by these intermediaries stood in stark contrast to the pejorative stereotypes common in literary and legal texts of the period. Brewer-García reconstructs the context of those translations and traces the contours and consequences of their notions of blackness, which were characterized by physical beauty and spiritual virtue Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2020) Subject Sacabuche, Andrés Jesús, Ursula de, 1604-1666. SUBJECT Jesús, Ursula de, 1604-1666. fast (OCoLC)fst00508852 Subject Black people -- Missions -- South America Jesuits -- Missions -- South America Black people -- South America -- Religion Black people -- South America Black people. Black people -- Missions. Black people -- Religion. South America. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019058878 ISBN 9781108632416 1108632416 9781108598811 1108598811

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