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Beyond Babel - Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada (Hardcover)
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Beyond Babel - Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada (Hardcover)
Series: Afro-Latin America
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In seventeenth-century Spanish America, black linguistic
interpreters and spiritual intermediaries played key roles in the
production of writings about black men and women. Focusing on the
African diaspora in Peru and the southern continental Caribbean,
Larissa Brewer-Garcia uncovers long-ignored or lost archival
materials describing the experiences of black Christians in the
transatlantic slave trade and the colonial societies where they
arrived. Brewer-Garcia's analysis of these materials shows that
black intermediaries bridged divisions among the populations
implicated in the slave trade, exerting influence over colonial
Spanish American writings and emerging racial hierarchies in the
Atlantic world. The translated portrayals of blackness composed by
these intermediaries stood in stark contrast to the pejorative
stereotypes common in literary and legal texts of the period.
Brewer-Garcia reconstructs the context of those translations and
traces the contours and consequences of their notions of blackness,
which were characterized by physical beauty and spiritual virtue.
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