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
4 - Conversion and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
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 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 BabelTranslations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, pp. 164 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020