Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz

by Bergmann, Emilie L.

• ISBN13: 9780873528160
• ISBN10: 0873528166
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz-a witty, intellectually formidable, and prolific author-stands as an icon of women's early writing and of colonial New Spain. Living in the capital city of seventeenth-century Mexico, she was located in the center of her world, but, as a self-taught, illegitimate, Creole woman and as a nun subject to the authority of male religious leaders, she was also socially marginal within that world. Like other early modern women she took up the pen to challenge gendered norms of the time. In style and content her works, which draw on baroque stylistics, classical rhetoric, and the natural sciences, are key documents in the development of Western literature.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series	p. ix
Preface to the Volume	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Materials
Editions	p. 9
Spanish Editions	p. 9
English Translations	p. 9
Editions Used in This Book
The Instructor's Library	p. 14
Audiovisual and Electronic Resources	p. 18
Approaches
Introduction	p. 21
Backgrounds: Gender, Power, and Religion in Colonial Society
Seventeenth-Century New Spain: A Historical Overview	p. 28
Sor Juana and Company: Intellectuals and Early Feminists	p. 37
Power and Resistance in the Colonial Mexican Convent	p. 47
Women's Spiritual Lives: The History, Politics, and Culture of Religious Women and Their Institutions in Colonial Society	p. 55
Sacred Allusions: Theology in Sor Juana's Work	p. 65
The "Mexican" Sor Juana	p. 77
Colonial No More: Reading Sor Juana from a Transatlantic Perspective	p. 86
Across the Atlantic: Sor Juana, La respuesta, and the Hispanic Women's Canon	p. 95
Sor Juana as a Baroque Writer: A Colonial Latin American Woman's Ways of Knowing
Gendered Ways of Seeing with Sor Juana: "Situating Knowledge" in New Spain	p. 103
Seventeenth-Century Pansapphism: Comparing "Exceptional Women" of the Americas and Europe	p. 112
"Guileful Deception of Sense": Semantic Fields and Sor Juana's Baroque Poetry	p. 119
Sor Juana's Dream: In Search of a Scientific Vision	p. 127
Spectacles of Power and Figures of Knowledge in Sor Juana's Allegorical Neptune	p. 135
Conventional Genres, Subversive Gestures
Sor Juana in Text and in Performance: Confronting Meaning	p. 144
Sor Juana's Loas: Hybridity in a Historical Context	p. 153
The House of Trials and the Trials of Master's-Level Research	p. 161
Sor Juana's Petrarchan Poetics	p. 170
Sor Juana; or, The Traps of Translation	p. 178
The Answer to Sor Filotea: A Rhetorical Approach	p. 186
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Three Hundred Years of Controversy and Counting	p. 193
The Final Silence of Sor Juana: The Abysmal Remove of Her Closing Night	p. 201
Teaching Sor Juana in the Twenty-First Century
Sor Juana's Love Poems Addressed to Women	p. 209
Visual Technologies as Pedagogical Artifacts: Teaching Sor Juana in a Virtual World	p. 220
Sor Juana, Food, and the Life of the Mind	p. 229
Musical Settings of Sor Juana's Works and Music in Works of Sor Juana	p. 238
Sor Juana, an Official Habit: Twentieth-Century Mexican Culture	p. 247
Traces of Sor Juana in Contemporary Mexicana and Chicana/Latina Writers	p. 256
Notes on Contributors	p. 265
Survey Participants	p. 271
Works Cited	p. 273
Index of Names	p. 303
Index of Works	p. 311
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