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4 - Conversion and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2020

Larissa Brewer-García
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University of Chicago
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This chapter analyzes the language black interpreters helped produce about the spiritual and aesthetic dimensions of blackness in the distinct missionary scenarios they led. In identifying and parsing this language in the context of its delivery and comparing it with other writings and images about black Christian conversion from the early modern Iberian world, the chapter argues that black interpreters circulated discourse about black beauty and black virtue that is seldom seen in other Spanish or Spanish American texts.

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Beyond Babel
Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada
, pp. 164 - 206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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