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The Resource Beyond Babel : translations of blackness in colonial Peru and New Granada, Larissa Brewer-García, (electronic resource)

Beyond Babel : translations of blackness in colonial Peru and New Granada, Larissa Brewer-García, (electronic resource)

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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. --
Language
eng
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Extent
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages)
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
  • Coda : negros literarios
  • Appendix A: Whether learning the language of Angola should be established for Jesuits in Peru (ca. 1635-1638)
  • Appendix B: from Andrés Sacabuche's Testimony for Pedro Claver's beatification inquest (1659)
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9781108730303
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632416
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Beyond Babel : translations of blackness in colonial Peru and New Granada
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Beyond Babel
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translations of blackness in colonial Peru and New Granada
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Larissa Brewer-García
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Language
eng
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. --
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  • Afro-Latin America
  • Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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  • Sacabuche, Andrés
  • Jesús, Ursula de
  • Blacks
  • Jesuits
  • Blacks
  • Black people
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Beyond Babel : translations of blackness in colonial Peru and New Granada, Larissa Brewer-García, (electronic resource)
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632416
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online resource
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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 -- Coda : negros literarios -- Appendix A: Whether learning the language of Angola should be established for Jesuits in Peru (ca. 1635-1638) -- Appendix B: from Andrés Sacabuche's Testimony for Pedro Claver's beatification inquest (1659)
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CR9781108632416
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781108730303
Media category
computer
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rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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digital, PDF file(s).
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remote
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(OCoLC)1154130127
Label
Beyond Babel : translations of blackness in colonial Peru and New Granada, Larissa Brewer-García, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632416
Publication
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online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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 -- Coda : negros literarios -- Appendix A: Whether learning the language of Angola should be established for Jesuits in Peru (ca. 1635-1638) -- Appendix B: from Andrés Sacabuche's Testimony for Pedro Claver's beatification inquest (1659)
Control code
CR9781108632416
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781108730303
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1154130127

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