Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcriptions and Translations
Introduction: Linguistic and Spiritual Mediations in the Earlier Black Atlantic
1 Black Types between Renaissance Humanism and Iberian Counter Reformation Theology
	Literary Bozales
	Black Types in Legal Texts
	The Black Type in New World Missionary Texts
	Conclusion
2 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Spanish American Missionary Translation Policy
	African Languages in New Granada and Peru
	Beyond New Granada
	Oraciones traducidas en la lengua del reyno de Angola
3 The Mediations of Black Interpreters in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
	The Corpus
	The Interpreters
	Visible Roles of the Black Interpreters
	The Privileges of Enslaved Interpreters
	Pivots and Tensions
	Collusion and Conflict among New Arrivals
	Beyond the Jesuit Mission
	Conclusion
4 Conversion and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
	Scripts
	Adaptations and Improvisations
	Black Christian Beauty, Black Christian Virtue
	Precedents and Contrasts
	Figurative Uses of Blackness
5 Salvation and the Making of Blackness in Colonial Lima: Úrsula de Jesús
	Úrsula and Female Autobiographical Convent Writing in Colonial Spanish America
	Divine Justice and Blackness in Úrsula\'s Spiritual Diary
	Blackness in Úrsula\'s Two Posthumous Vidas
		The Vida breve
		The Vida anónima
	Conclusion
Coda: Negros literarios
Appendixes
	Appendix A Whether Jesuits Should Learn Kimbundu in Peru (ca. 1635)
	Appendix B Selections from Andrés Sacacuche\' s Testimony in Pedro Claver\'s Beatification Inquest (Proceso 1676)
Bibliography
	Archival Sources
	Printed Sources
Index