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
2 - The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Spanish American Missionary Translation Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2020
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
Summary
This chapter argues that the policy developed for evangelizing black populations in Spanish America, compared with that of indigenous populations in the same regions, required uniquely validating black interpreters’ roles as evangelical intermediaries. This validation in turn opened a space for important forms of subjectification and authority for black interpreters.
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- Beyond BabelTranslations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, pp. 74 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020