Primary Contributions (1)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a Mexican poet, dramatist, scholar, and Roman Catholic nun who is considered to be one of the most important writers of the Latin American colonial period and of the Hispanic Baroque. Her best-known works include intricate philosophical poems, religious dramas, and a…
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Publications (3)
The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture (November 2010)
By Stephanie Merrim
Winner, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2010
The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture—cities, festivals, and wonder—from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats a multitude of imperialist and anti-imperialist texts in depth, including poetry, drama, protofiction,...
Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1999)
By Stephanie Merrim
Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz fills a gap in the scholarship on Sor Juana by exploring the implications of her feminist staus in literary and cultural terms.
Editor Stephanie Merrim's introduction surveys key issues in Sor Juana criticism from a feminist literary perspective and...
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Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (July 1999)
By Stephanie Merrim
This book maps the field of seventeenth-century women's writing in Spanish, English, and French and situates the work of Sor Juana more clearly within that field. It holds up the multi-layered, proto-feminist writings of Sor Juana as a meaningful lens through which to focus the literary production of her female contemporaries. Merrim's book advances the integration of Hispanic women authors and women's issues into the panorama of early modern women's writing and opens up unexplored commonalities...
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