Description |
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrations |
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Afro-Latin America |
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Afro-Latin America.
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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
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Jesús, Ursula de, 1604-1666.
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SUBJECT |
Jesús, Ursula de, 1604-1666. fast (OCoLC)fst00508852 |
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Black people -- Missions -- South America
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Jesuits -- Missions -- South America
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Black people -- South America -- Religion
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Black people -- South America
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Black people.
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Black people -- Missions.
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Black people -- Religion.
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South America.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2019058878 |
ISBN |
9781108632416 |
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1108632416 |
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9781108598811 |
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1108598811 |
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