Book contents
- Beyond Babel
- Afro-Latin America
- Beyond Babel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transcriptions and Translations
- Introduction
- 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 of Blackness in Colonial Lima
- Coda
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Linguistic and Spiritual Mediations in the Earlier Black Atlantic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2020
- Beyond Babel
- Afro-Latin America
- Beyond Babel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transcriptions and Translations
- Introduction
- 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 of Blackness in Colonial Lima
- Coda
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Texts produced by and about black interpreters and black spiritual intermediaries in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada indicate the circulation of notions of blackness that demand more critical attention as they offer insight into the adoption and transformation of racial categories by racialized individuals themselves. This Introduction outlines the argument, provides historical context, and defines key terms used throughout the rest of the book.
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- Beyond BabelTranslations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, pp. 1 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020