Poetry Books by Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
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Published Date: 2009-06-01
Categories: Literary Criticism
"["The Answer"] is eloquent, sardonic, learned and, particularly in its autobiographical part, of great freshness."-"The Times Literary Supplement" "One of the landmarks of Renaissance literature and . . . in the history of intellectual freedom. . . . This is essential reading."-Stephen Greenblatt, best-selling author and professor "Recommended for informed readers."-"Library Journal" Expanded to include fresh translations, an updated bibliography, and the letter that provoked the writing of "The Answer," this new edition of the bilingual, critical bestseller provides the most accurate translations of works by the iconic seventeenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published Date: 2009-06-01
Categories: Literary Criticism
Known as the first feminist of the Americas, the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz enjoyed an international reputation as one of the great lyric poets and dramatists of her time. While earlier translators have ignored Sor Juana's keen awareness of gender, this volume brings out her own emphasis and diction, and reveals the remarkable scholarship, subversiveness, and even humor she drew on in defense of her cause. This expanded, bilingual edition combines new research and perspectives on an inspired writer and thinker. It includes the fully annotated primary text, The Answer/La Respuesta (1691), which is Sor Juana's impassioned response to years of attempts by church officials to silence her; the letter that ultimately provoked the writing of The Answer; an expanded selection of poems; an updated bibliography; and a new preface.
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Published Date: 1998
Categories: Drama
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, known as "The Tenth Muse" of America, has been widely anthologized as a poet, intellectual, and defender of women's rights. Her calling as a nun, often overlooked, is clear in THE DIVINE NARCISSUS, an allegory ostensibly written to explain Christian concepts to the Aztecs whose plight under colonization it also dramatizes. This is the first English translation of this revealing work.
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published Date: 1994
Categories: Literary Collections
"Outstanding edition and translation into English of Sor Juana's intellectual tour de force. Includes an excellent introduction, chronology, notes, and critical commentary. Both scholarly remarks and Sor Juana's work are essential reading for scholars, specialists, students of all levels, and the general reader"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
