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Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz fills a gap in the scholarship on Sor Juana by exploring the implications of her feminist staus in literary and cultural terms.
Editor Stephanie Merrim's introduction surveys key issues in Sor Juana criticism from a feminist literary perspective and suggests a blueprint for future studies. Essays by Dorothy Schons and Asunción Lavrin reconstitute essential dimensions or Sor Juana's world, addressing biographical questions about the norms and values of religious life. Moving from social norms to their verbal expression, Josefina Ludmer reads Sor Juana's Respuesta for its stratagems of resistance, and Stehanie Merrim uncovers in Sor Juana's theater the encoded drama of the conflicted creative woman.
Editor Stephanie Merrim's introduction surveys key issues in Sor Juana criticism from a feminist literary perspective and suggests a blueprint for future studies. Essays by Dorothy Schons and Asunción Lavrin reconstitute essential dimensions or Sor Juana's world, addressing biographical questions about the norms and values of religious life. Moving from social norms to their verbal expression, Josefina Ludmer reads Sor Juana's Respuesta for its stratagems of resistance, and Stehanie Merrim uncovers in Sor Juana's theater the encoded drama of the conflicted creative woman.
- GenresFeminism
192 pages, Paperback
First published December 12, 1991
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May 20, 2024Mainly I read "Some Obscure Points in the Life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" Dorothy Schons pp.38-60
She herself wrote: "con todo, para las total negacion que tenia al matrimonio, era lo menos, que podria elegir en materia de la seguridad........de mi salvacion." p. 45
Also --"Toward a Feminist Reading of Sor Juana de la Cruz: Past, Present, Future Directions in Sor Juana Criticism"
Sor Juana was the first feminist of the Americas.
Octavio Paz brings forward her literary and intellectual achievements without "domesticating or feminizing them as had previous critics. Similarly (if perhaps misguidedly) the Mexican writer mounts an assiduous attack on those who see in Sor Juana's fervent love poems to her female protectors indications of her homosexuality." p. 184
The few pages of the Autodefensa "effectively deflate the many concerted efforts on the part of the exegetes to render Sor Juana a servile saintlly nun." p. 28
She herself wrote: "con todo, para las total negacion que tenia al matrimonio, era lo menos, que podria elegir en materia de la seguridad........de mi salvacion." p. 45
Also --"Toward a Feminist Reading of Sor Juana de la Cruz: Past, Present, Future Directions in Sor Juana Criticism"
Sor Juana was the first feminist of the Americas.
Octavio Paz brings forward her literary and intellectual achievements without "domesticating or feminizing them as had previous critics. Similarly (if perhaps misguidedly) the Mexican writer mounts an assiduous attack on those who see in Sor Juana's fervent love poems to her female protectors indications of her homosexuality." p. 184
The few pages of the Autodefensa "effectively deflate the many concerted efforts on the part of the exegetes to render Sor Juana a servile saintlly nun." p. 28
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