Inundación castálida (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana
- First Published: 1689
- Type of Work: Poetry and prose
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry
- Subjects: Gender roles, Poetry or poets, Feminism, Seventeenth century, Women, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Spain or Spanish people, Nuns, Religious life
Critical Evaluation:
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is the most significant poet and writer of the colonial period in the Americas. Born of a poor but honorable family in the village of San Miguel de Nepantla near a town called Amecameca, not far from Mexico City, she learned to read at the age of three, and the pursuit of knowledge subsequently became her true passion. Barred from attending the University in Mexico City because she was a woman, her plan to attend classes dressed as a man failed. Sor Juana’s intellectual precocity attracted the interest of Viceroy Marquis de la...
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