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NEW FOR FALL 2009 "SOR
JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ: MEXICO'S FIRST WOMAN OF LETTERS" (SPAN 416) WEDNESDAYS 2:00-4:50 LECTURES
AND READINGS IN ENGLISH!* * (For Spanish major/minor
credit: Readings & student writings in Spanish)
Scholar, intellectual, poet, and playwright,
the nun Juana InŽs de la Cruz is regarded by many as the first feminist
writer of colonial New Spain. She was born an illegitimate Creole in the
capital city of seventeenth-century Mexico and was self-taught. Socially
marginalized by her world, she was as favored and promoted by the viceroy's
court as she was restricted by it. Her writings are witty, formidable, and at
times scandalous, reflecting a talent that remains timeless. They draw on
baroque stylistics, classical rhetoric, as well as the natural sciences, and
are key documents in the development of Western literature. Today she stands
both as an icon of women's writings and also as the single most legendary
figure of Baroque Spanish writing in the colonial Americas. FOR MORE INFORMATION
PLEASE CONTACT DR. DEBRA MAURY, LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT |
