The download includes an english version for beginners and a. Sor juana 16511695 was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Selected writings classics of western spirituality paperback. The department of spanish and portuguese dartmouth college hanover, new hampshire. Sor juana ines her cell in the cloister became the meeting place of many intellectuals and poets. We are honored to present to you the greatest poet the american continent produced in the seventeenth century. She was a selftaught scholar and poet of the baroque school, and hieronymite nun of new spain, known in her lifetime as the tenth muse. She was born november 12, 1651, in san miguel nepantla, a. Due to her spanish ancestry and mexican birth, juana is considered a criolla.
She was known in her lifetime as the tenth muse, or the phoenix of america. Sergio gallegos, john jay college of criminal injustice. Her respuesta is a maverick work outlining the logical sense of womens education more than 200 years before woolfs a. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Included also is a slideshow in pdf format in spanish to provide students with. Sor juanas work does not offer us a fetishistic glimpse at the inner workings of the female psyche, nor can it provide us with a polemical base upon which to build a psychoanalytical discourse of or on female desire, as has notoriously been the case with the work of santa teresa and the modern french psychoanalyst jacques lacan. Sister joan agnes of the cross was born on 12 november 1651. Iconic mexican women at the threshold of a new century pdf. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. There is a difference between the european baroque and that of new spain. Scrisse anche commedie, lettere, autos sacramentales e villancicos. Despite what i have been saying so far, sor juanas work is not simply a copy of contemporary european styles. You foolish men who lay the guilt on women, not seeing youre the cause of the very thing you blame if you invite their disdain with measureless desire.
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