{"product_id":"words-made-flesh-language-body-and-conversion-in-colonial-latin-america-hardback-9781512828467","title":"Words Made Flesh; Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America (Hardback) 9781512828467","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWords Made Flesh\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLanguage, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCaroline Egan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512828467\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 8 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWords Made Flesh \u003c\/i\u003eis refreshing and ambitious in its scope, examining across five languages authors who represent different geographical and historical moments in the Iberian Americas. The book provides an innovative, exciting approach that contributes to a turn in literary studies toward new ways in which texts can reflect on embodiment, whether through performance, biopolitics, or the sensorial.\" - Anna More, author of \u003ci\u003eBaroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords Made Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e examines the role played by corporeality in a series of missionary linguistic and poetic projects from Brazil, Peru, and Mexico in early colonial Latin America. Caroline Egan analyzes how works produced in Indigenous languages for the purpose of evangelization were shaped by and, in turn, transformed native understandings of embodiment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEgan follows the trajectories of specific understudied words in the colonial corpus, tracing their usage through grammars, dictionaries, doctrinal translations, and hymns in Tupi, Quechua, and Nahuatl. These words, however, might not be the first to come to mind when thinking about missionary projects in the colonial world—such as God and trinity, heaven and hell, angel and demon. Instead, the book examines words like the Tupi \u003ci\u003eîuká \u003c\/i\u003e(to kill) and \u003ci\u003emanõ \u003c\/i\u003e(to die); the Quechua \u003ci\u003esunqu \u003c\/i\u003e(now often translated as \"heart\"); and the Nahuatl \u003ci\u003echōca \u003c\/i\u003e(to weep), \u003ci\u003ecuīca \u003c\/i\u003e(to sing), and \u003ci\u003eihuinti \u003c\/i\u003e(to get drunk). With complementary emphases on regional specificity and comparative ramifications, \u003ci\u003eWords Made Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the changing fortunes of these words speak to significant areas of dialogue and debate between Indigenous communities and missionary writers in the late sixteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676610621720,"sku":"9781512828467","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/words-made-flesh-language-body-and-conversion-in-colonial-latin-america-hardback-9781512828467","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}