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
5 - Salvation and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Lima
Úrsula de Jesús
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
Writings by and about Úrsula de Jesús from seventeenth-century Lima depict her as a black visionary and spiritual intermediary who conveyed messages between souls in purgatory, God, and the living. Úrsula de Jesús’s spiritual diary, in particular, develops a notion of beautiful and virtuous Christian blackness, framed as a corrective to the worldly hierarchies separating the poorer and darker-skinned slaves, servants, and donadas from the wealthier Spanish or criolla nuns in colonial Lima.
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- Beyond BabelTranslations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, pp. 207 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020