The Answer / La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poems (A Feminist Press Sourcebook) - Softcover

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558610774 ISBN 13: 9781558610774

Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994

Synopsis

Drawing on rich new scholarship, this translation restores Sor Juana's own emphasis and diction. Known as the First Feminist of America, the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51 - 1695) was a brilliant and popular poet, playwright, and essayist whose feminist theory stands as a link between that of Christine de Pizan and Mary Wollstonecraft in the struggle to establish the intellectual rights of women. Sor Juana's persistent defense of these rights brought her increasingly into conflict with church officials who wanted to silence her. The Answer (1691) is Sor Juana's culminating response to years of attacks. The introduction, bibliography, chronology, and complete Spanish texts of The Answer and nine poems make this volume the indispensable Sor Juana reader.

"One of the landmarks of Renaissance literature and an important document in the history of intellectual freedom.... Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand not only this remarkable woman but also the whole world in which she forged her identity."-Stephen Greenblatt, UCLA Berkeley

* A 1995 PEN Center West Literary Translation Award Finalist *
* Alternate of the Quality Paperback Book Club *

Suggested for course use in:
Feminist Theory
Latin American Studies
Religious History
Women's history

About this title

About the Author:

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-1695), a Mexican nun, was a brilliant poet, playwright, and essayist whose persistent defense of the intellectual rights of women brought her increasingly into conflict with church officials, who repeated tried to silence her. Sor Juana died by taking care her sister nuns during a plague in April 1695.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1558610774
• ISBN 13: 9781558610774
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196