Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Subtitle: feminist reconstruction of biography and text
By: Theresa A. Yugar ; foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether
Contributors: Ruether, Rosemary Radford, writer of foreword
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9781625644404
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Feminism and literature; Mexican literature; Nahuas; Women and religion; Criticism and interpretation; Women in literature
Description: In Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Feminist Reconstruction of Biography and Text, Yugar invites you to accompany Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a seventeenth-century protofeminist and ecofeminist, on her lifelong journey within three communities of women in the Americas. Sor Juana's goal was to reconcile inequalities between men and women in central Mexico and between the Spaniards and the indigenous Nahua population of New Spain. Yugar reconstructs a her-story narrative through analysis of two primary texts Sor Juana wrote en sus propias palabras (in her own words), El Sueño (The Dream) and La Respuesta (The Answer). Yugar creates a historically-based narrative in which Sor Juana's sueño of a more just world becomes a living nightmare haunted by misogyny in the form of the church, the Spanish Tribunal, Jesuits, and more-all seeking her destruction. In the process, Sor Juana "hoists [them] with their own petard" In seventeenth-century colonial Mexico, just as her Latina sisters in the Americas are doing today, Sor Juana used her pluma (pen) to create counternarratives in which the wisdom of women and the Nahua inform her sueño of a more just world for all.--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-108).
Table of contents: title: Feminist Historical Reconstruction; title: Introduction; title: The Historical Context for Understanding Sor Juana's Her-Story; title: A Feminist Historical Reconstruction of the Biography of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; title: Feminist Textual Analysis; title: La Respuesta (The Answer); title: El Sueno (The Dream); title: A Paradigm for a Latina Liberative Ecclesiology.