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OverviewOver 20,000 net units sold of 1994 edition. Contains new and updated materials: the letter from Sor Filotea; seven new poems; preface to the second edition reflects new scholarship-especially about Sor Juana’s mysterious death-in the many academic fields in which Sor Juana is taught; and selected bibliography points to on-line research and major new books and articles on Sor Juana. Offers detailed annotation in clear, succinct form that makes accessible Sor Juana’s complex baroque style, intelligence, and wit. Competing translations contain linguistic inaccuracies and lack thorough contextualization of recent scholarship on the period. Sor Juana has an iconic place in modern Mexico (her face appears on the $200 peso and she has been portrayed in several movies, plays, and novels) and she has a number of literary champions including Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, who wrote Sor Juana Or, the Traps of Faith, a contemplation of her poetry, life, and times. The Sor Juana Festival is a multidisciplinary festival that honors the legacy of Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz and pays tribute to the rich artistic accomplishments of Mexican women from Mexico and the United States. Celebrated in Chicago, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, with plans of further expansion into other states, it is the largest Mexican performing arts festival in the country and the only festival of its kind dedicated to Mexican women. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz , Electa Arenal , Amanda PowellPublisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York Edition: Revised Edition Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.380kg ISBN: 9781558615984ISBN 10: 1558615989 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 16 July 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews[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 Author Information"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-1695), a Mexican nun, was a brilliant poet, playwright, and essayist whose persistent defense of the intellectual rights of women brought her increasingly into conflict with church officials, who repeated tried to silence her. Sor Juana died by taking care her sister nuns during a plague in April 1695. Electa Arenal, professor emerita of Hispanic and Women's Studies (City University of New York), is a translator and specialist in Hispanic monastic women's culture. Listed in Feminists Who Changed America, Arenal's fourth co-authored book, an illustrated, critical edition of Sor Juana's Neptuno alegórico, was published by Editorial Cátedra, in Spain. Amanda Powell, award-winning poet and translator, teaches Latin American and Spanish literature and literary translation at the University of Oregon. Powell has published essays on: 16th- and 17th-century Spanish and Colonial Latin American women writers; convent writings; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; the ""boom"" in women's love poetry across 17th century Europe; and literary translation." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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