![]() ![]() Also included in this wide-ranging selection is a new translation of Sor Juana's masterpiece, the epistemological poem "Primero Sueno, " as well as revealing autobiographical sonnets, reverential religious poetry, secular love poems (which have excited speculation through three centuries), playful verses, and lyrical tributes to New World culture that are among the earliest writings celebrating the people and the customs of this hemisphere. at once a chronicle of the tense gender relations in the Western Hemisphere, a rich portrait of the social behavior that prevailed more than a century before independence from Spain was gained in 1810, and the very first intellectual autobiography written by a criolla in a hemisphere known for its solipsism, introversion, and allergy to public confessions. Moreover, notes Ilan Stavans in his introduction, it has become "a cornerstone of Hispanic-American identity. A passionate and subversive defense of the rights of women to study, to teach, and to write, it predates by almost a century and a half serious writings on any continent about the position and education of women. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work, La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, in 1691 in response to her bishop's injunction against her intellectual pursuits. Sor Juana instead adopted the self-taught method of learning, and was so devoted. Due to beliefs about the roles of women at that time, she did not have much access to formal education however, this did nothing to hinder her curiosity. ![]() ![]() THEATER, SACRED AND PROFANE : Loa for El Divino Narciso Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz was born in Mexico sometime between 16 (scholars are not entirely sure).VILLANCICO : Fragment from "Santa Catarina".Which Recounts How Fantasy Contents Itself.SONNETS : She Attempts to Minimize the Praise.DECIMAS : She Assures that She Will Hold a Secret.RESPONSE TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS POETESS SOR FILOTEA DE LA CRUZ.Romances - Redondillas - Epigrams - Decimas - Sonnets - Villancico - Theater, sacred and profane: Loa for el divino Narciso Fragment from Los empenos de una casa.Response to the most illustrious poetess Sor Filotea de la Cruz.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xlv-xlviii). ![]()
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