Words Made Flesh: Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America
Caroline Egan (Spanish and Portuguese)
Friday, 9 October, 12:30-2pm
Hagstrum Room
Words Made Flesh 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.
Responses by Larissa Brewer-García (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago), Paul Ramírez (History, Northwestern), and María José Cornejo Griffin (PhD candidate, English, Northwestern)
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