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  • Words Made Flesh

    Language, Body, and Conversion in Colonial Latin America

    by Caroline Egan ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Examines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin AmericaWords 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 ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture

    Series series Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
    The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual and artistic breadth of early modern Spain from a range of disciplinary and critical perspectives.Spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (a period traditionally known as the Golden Age), the volume examines topics including political and scientific culture, literary and ... Read more

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  • The Pet Problem (Disney/Pixar Toy Story)

    Illustrated by Caroline Egan ...
    Series series Little Golden Book
    Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody are jealous when Bonnie brings home a pet hamster. But when the hamster gets loose, Buzz and Woody realize they need to get the fuzzy creature back in its cage before Bonnie gets home. This all-new Little Golden Book starring the toys from Disney/Pixar Toy Story is sure to become an instant classic with boys and girls ages 2 to 5. ... Read more

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  • Toy to Toy (Disney/Pixar Toy Story 3)

    Series series Step into Reading, Step 1
    The creators of the Toy Story films reopen the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of our favorite gang of toy characters in Toy Story 3. Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of Andy’s toys are as fun and adventurous as always, but none of them can deny that things in Andy’s room have changed. Andy is seventeen now and just three days away from heading off to college. Find out ... Read more

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  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

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    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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    Although their milieu bore striking similarities to the Wild West, the people of medieval Spain were preoccupied with constructing valid laws and learning how best to abide by them. This obsession with legality comes out in epics, songs, stories, and even in miracles of the Virgin Mary. Scholars have largely failed to see the usefulness of considering the different types of text produced under ... Read more

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  • Narrative Threads

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    The Inka Empire stretched over much of the length and breadth of the South American Andes, encompassed elaborately planned cities linked by a complex network of roads and messengers, and created astonishing works of architecture and artistry and a compelling mythology—all without the aid of a graphic writing system. Instead, the Inkas' records consisted of devices made of knotted and dyed strings ... Read more

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  • The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico

    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    Through close readings of the painted images in a major sixteenth-century illustrated manuscript, this book demonstrates the critical role that images played in ethnic identity formation and politics in colonial Mexico.The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the ... Read more

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  • Sin and Confession in Colonial Peru

    Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560-1650

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    A central tenet of Catholic religious practice, confession relies upon the use of language between the penitent and his or her confessor. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as Spain colonized the Quechua-speaking Andean world, the communication of religious beliefs and practices—especially the practice of confession—to the native population became a primary concern, and as a result, ... Read more

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    This edited volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), one of the first Latin American writers to present an intellectual analysis of pre-Columbian history and culture and the ensuing colonial period. To the contributors, Inca Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries of the Incas presented an early counter-hegemonic discourse and a ... Read more

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