Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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491_9781625644404
In Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Feminist Reconstruction of Biography and Text, Yugar invites you to accompany Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a seventeenth-century protofeminist and ecofeminist, on her lifelong journey within three communities of women in the Americas. Sor Juanas goal was to reconcile inequalities between men and women in central Mexico and between the Spaniards and the indigenous Nahua population of New Spain. Yugar reconstructs a her-story narrative through analysis of two primary texts Sor Juana wrote en sus propias palabras (in her own words), El Sueno (The Dream) and La Respuesta (The Answer). Yugar creates a historically-based narrative in which Sor Juanas sueno of a more just world becomes a living nightmare haunted by misogyny in the form of the church, the Spanish Tribunal, Jesuits, and more--all seeking her destruction. In the process, Sor Juana hoists [them] with their own petard. In seventeenth-century colonial Mexico, just as her Latina sisters in the Americas are doing today, Sor Juana used her pluma (pen) to create counternarratives in which the wisdom of women and the Nahua inform her sueno of a more just world for all.Theresa Ann Yugars book elaborates the importance of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the foremost seventeenth-century protofeminist and ecofeminist in the Americas. Yugars work on Sor Juana as the foundational figure for Latina feminism and ecofeminism in the Americas deserves wide recognition and reading. I highly recommend it.--Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA Theresa Yugars imaginative reconstruction of the life of Sor Juana de la Cruz locates the seventeenth-century scholar within the framework of liberation theology and ecofeminism. She demonstrates the ways that communities of women with whom the writer lived influenced Sor Juanas thinking about patriarchy and hierarchy. Further, she shows how natural disasters shaped the nuns views about the environment. Yugar theref
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