Inés de la Cruz Juana, Sister, 1651-1695
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1651 - 1695
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Places
Languages Used
- Spanish; Castilian
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Professing her vows to learning : unveiling an ironic historiography in Sor Juana's response, 2024
Item — Call number MU Thesis Var
Identifier: b7931985
Abstract
My paper examines how Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz leverages a complex form of dialectical irony to subvert her own silencing in her Response to the Most Illustrious Poetess Sor Filotea de la Cruz. Problematizing prior rhetorical scholarship on Response, which has often uncritically reinscribed the language of rescue and martyrdom, I instead call for a panhistorical ironic recovery process that recenters social circulation to...
Dates:
2024