Literary self-fashioning in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
By: Frederick Luciani.
Series: Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Publisher: Bucknell University Presses
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lewisburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Self in literature.
Description: "This book offers a close reading of selected poetic, dramatic, and prose works by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695). With thorough knowledge of theoretical debates about writing, subjectivity, and gender, Frederick Luciani elucidates ways in which this important colonial Mexican intellectual and literary figure created a textual self through her writing. Literary Self-Fashioning analyzes Sor Juana's complex, varied, and strategic process of literary self-fashioning, the self-promotional and self-protective functions it served, and its consequences for her readers and for subsequent generations. The book, likewise, situates its readings of Sor Juana's work against the background of the arc of her career - its ascent in the 1680s, its descent and disintegration in the 1690s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194) and index.