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Inés de la Cruz Juana, Sister, 1651-1695

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1651 - 1695

Occupations

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