Colonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750 - Softcover

Sampson Vera Tudela, Elisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292777485 ISBN 13: 9780292777484

Verlag: University of Texas Press, 2000

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Book by Sampson Vera Tudela Elisa University of Texas Pres

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"This is a fascinating, well-written, and suggestive account of the intersections of gender and genre in writing by and about religious women in colonial Mexico... Sampson's overview of these women's narratives provides a wealth of information about the personal lives and thoughts of a doubly silenced group: cloistered religious women." Catherine Jaffe, Associate Professor of Spanish, Southwest Texas State University

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Spain's attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and about colonial religious women participated in this transformation, as it illuminates the role that gender played in imposing the Spanish empire in Mexico. The author argues that the New World context necessitated the creation of a new kind of writing. Drawing on previously unpublished writings by and about nuns in the convents of Mexico City, she investigates such topics as the relationship between hagiography and travel narratives, male visions of the feminine that emerge from the reworking of a nun's letters to her confessor into a hagiography, the discourse surrounding a convent's trial for heresy by the Inquisition, and the reports of Spanish priests who ministered to noble Indian women. This research rounds out colonial Mexican history by revealing how tensions between Spain and its colonies played out in the local, daily lives of women.

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• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0292777485
• ISBN 13: 9780292777484
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224