Gender and the Work of Missionary Translation: Black Women Interpreters among the Jesuits in Seventeenth-Century Cartagena de Indias.
A collection of texts about the Jesuit mission in the Caribbean port of Cartagena de Indias in the seventeenth century describes missionaries' frequent recourse to Black women interpreters to evangelize new arrivals from Western Africa. By analyzing these texts in conversation with Jesuit writings f...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 63 - 101 |
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