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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
(1651 - 1695)
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 Poems,
Protest, and a Dream : Selected Writings by
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Margaret Sayers Peden
(Translator), ila Stavans
Born in Mexico in 1648, Latin America's finest
baroque poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz spent her entire adult life
in a convent. This unique dual-language collection of her works
includes a famous prose piece that offers fascinating insights
into the poet and the world in which she lived. Remarkable for her
time, Sor Juana discusses the position of women with astonishing
frankness, irony, and thinly veiled anger, issues that continue to
be of concern today. How far, yet how little we have come in 300
years.
 Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe by
Octavio Paz
Sor Juana displays an extraordinary sweep of
imagination and intelligence, and it is many things: a biography,
a critical study, a re-creation of an era, a meditation of Mexican
history, a dialogue of poet with poet, a reflection on the role of
the intellectual in the modern world.
"Octavio Paz, Nobel laureate, poet and one
of the best writers of essays in the Spanish language, can give
people seriously interested in learning about Sor Juana invaluable
information in this beautifully researched book. Everything that
is really known about her biography (not anachronistic
twentieth-century storytelling and fantasy) is here; and, very
importantly, authoritative background information on Colonial
Mexican history and culture, social organization, religious
practices and norms, and reading materials and habits. Sor Juana
is a complex woman, a great reader and thinker that has to be
understood in context. This book provides this, and also a
sensitive and informed reading of her work. It is also a very good
read. Modern-day fictional accounts are deceptive and will
short-change you. Don't fall for them. This book is the real
thing." -- Anonymous Review
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651 - 1695)
(Juana Inés de Asbaje)
POET
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Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth
College
...the greatest poet the American continent
produced in the seventeenth century. She was born November 12,
1651, in San Miguel Nepantla, a village south of Mexico City. She
was a Poet Nun, a woman of genius, and a person of intellectual
prowess whose ideas and accomplishments were ahead of her time...
Site includes descriptions, a chronology,
scholarly works, bibliography and more.
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From Sappho.com
Site includes several poems translated by Alan
S. Trueblood, including Phyllis, My Divine Lysis, My Lady, I
Approach and I Withdraw, Disillusionment, On the death of that
most excellent lady, the Marquise de Mancera, and You Men.
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Excerpt:
She was ordered by the bishop of Puebla to
refrain from intellectual pursuits, and because of that, she wrote
her Respuesta a Sor Filotea; a defense of women's right to
knowledge in 1691. Four years later in 1695 Sor Juana died of an
unspecified epidemic that swept the convent...
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Excerpt:
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is best known as a
major Baroque literary figure of Mexico. However, her insatiable
desire to understand everything around her, coupled with her
studies in classical and medieval philosophy and her fierce
assertion of a woman's right to fully participate in scholastic
inquiry mark her as a philosopher as well. According to Mary
Morkovsky, Sor Juana's philosophical poetry, (Sueno)
indicates a coherent world view, and her critique of the Jesuit
sermon reveals her mastery of logic. In addition, in the same
decade that England's Mary Astell wrote her argument for the
education of women, A Serious Proposal To The Ladies...,in
Mexico, Sor Juana was hotly defending a woman's right to an
education and intellectual prowess in Reply to Sor Philothea...
Site Includes a detailed time line.
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