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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...

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Published in:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 63 - 101
Main Author: BREWER-GARCÍA, LARISSA
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Fall2021
Subjects:
Women's writings
Black women
Women's roles
Translators
Missionaries
Jesuit missions
Cartagena (Colombia)
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