Larissa Brewer-García
Biographic Data
| ID | 3449274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larissa Brewer-García |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Brewer-García |
| SIGNATURE | BREWER-GARCÍA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0966-4105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La construcción de la santidad en la region andina: La vida de la beata Juana de Jesús (1662–1703)
The composite pardo of seventeenth-century Lima: Blackness, whiteness, and Creole self-fashioning in the earliest portraits of Martín de Porres
Saint Martin de Porres was born in late sixteenth-century Lima to a formerly enslaved and unmarried black mother and a Spanish father.1 When Martin died at the age of 59 in 1639, he left behind a l
Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada
The agency of translation in colonial Latin America
A typology of recent scholarship on non-European linguistic intermediaries in colonial Latin America sets the stage for this chapter’s methodological reflection on how to interpret the participation of enslaved black interpreters in colonial evangelical efforts in Spanish America. The chapter argues that scholarship on non-European intermediaries should continue to read against the tendencies of colonial texts to alienate the products of translat…
Imagined Transformations: Color, Beauty, and Black Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America
The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain
Fuchs, Barbara, Larissa Brewer-García, and Aaron J. Ilika, eds. and trans. “The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2015, pp. 5-213), on Érudit
Bodies, Texts, and Translators: Indigenous Breast Milk and the Jesuit Exclusion of Mestizos in Late Sixteenth-Century Peru
The present article analyzes the connection between the corporeal reasons Jesuits provide to justify excluding their mestizo translators from the order in late sixteenth century Peru and the publication of the Third Lima Council's standardized translations. I argue the simultaneous Jesuit prohibition of mestizo ordination and the codification of religious translation in the Andes led to the consolidation of a marginalized, but still influential, …
Bodies, Texts, and Translators: Indigenous Breast Milk and the Jesuit Exclusion of Mestizos in Late Sixteenth-Century Peru
The present article analyzes the connection between the corporeal reasons Jesuits provide to justify excluding their mestizo translators from the order in late sixteenth century Peru and the publication of the Third Lima Council's standardized translations. I argue the simultaneous Jesuit prohibition of mestizo ordination and the codification of religious translation in the Andes led to the consolidation of a marginalized, but still influential, …
The composite pardo of seventeenth-century Lima: Blackness, whiteness, and Creole self-fashioning in the earliest portraits of Martín de Porres
Saint Martin de Porres was born in late sixteenth-century Lima to a formerly enslaved and unmarried black mother and a Spanish father.1 When Martin died at the age of 59 in 1639, he left behind a l
Bodies, Texts, and Translators: Indigenous Breast Milk and the Jesuit Exclusion of Mestizos in Late Sixteenth-Century Peru
The present article analyzes the connection between the corporeal reasons Jesuits provide to justify excluding their mestizo translators from the order in late sixteenth century Peru and the publication of the Third Lima Council's standardized translations. I argue the simultaneous Jesuit prohibition of mestizo ordination and the codification of religious translation in the Andes led to the consolidation of a marginalized, but still influential, …
The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain
Fuchs, Barbara, Larissa Brewer-García, and Aaron J. Ilika, eds. and trans. “The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2015, pp. 5-213), on Érudit
Imagined Transformations: Color, Beauty, and Black Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America
Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada
The agency of translation in colonial Latin America
A typology of recent scholarship on non-European linguistic intermediaries in colonial Latin America sets the stage for this chapter’s methodological reflection on how to interpret the participation of enslaved black interpreters in colonial evangelical efforts in Spanish America. The chapter argues that scholarship on non-European intermediaries should continue to read against the tendencies of colonial texts to alienate the products of translat…
The composite pardo of seventeenth-century Lima: Blackness, whiteness, and Creole self-fashioning in the earliest portraits of Martín de Porres
Saint Martin de Porres was born in late sixteenth-century Lima to a formerly enslaved and unmarried black mother and a Spanish father.1 When Martin died at the age of 59 in 1639, he left behind a l
La construcción de la santidad en la region andina: La vida de la beata Juana de Jesús (1662–1703)
Latin American history and culture (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Early Modern Women Writers (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Humanities (3 works)