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Contents Preface to the Series ix Preface to the Volume xi Introduction 1 Acknowledgments xiii Part One: Materials Emilie L. Bergmann and Stacey Schlau Editions 9 Spanish Editions 9 English Translations 9 Carol Maier The Instructor's Library 14 Audiovisual and Electronic Resources 18 Selected Works by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 000 Part Two: Approaches Introduction 21 Essays 000 Backgrounds: Gender, Power, and Religion in Colonial Society 28 Seventeenth-Century New Spain: A Historical Overview 28 Asunción Lavrin Sor Juana and Company: Intellectuals and Early Feminists 37 Electa Arenal Power and Resistance in the Colonial Mexican Convent 47 Stephanie Kirk Women's Spiritual Lives: The History, Politics, and Culture of Religious Women and Their Institutions in Colonial Society 55 Jennifer L. Eich Sacred Allusions: Theology in Sor Juana's Work 65 Grady C. Wray The "Mexican" Sor Juana 77 Stephanie Merrim Colonial No More: Reading Sor Juana from a Transatlantic Perspective 86 Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Across the Atlantic: Sor Juana, La respuesta, and the Hispanic Women's Canon 95 Lisa Vollendorf Sor Juana as a Baroque Writer: A Colonial Latin American Woman's Ways of Knowing 103 Gendered Ways of Seeing with Sor Juana: "Situating Knowledge" in New Spain 103 Catherine M. Bryan Seventeenth-Century Pansapphism: Comparing "Exceptional Women" of the Americas and Europe 112 Tamara Harvey "Guileful Deception of Sense": Semantic Fields and Sor Juana's Baroque Poetry 119 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli Sor Juana's Dream: In Search of a Scientific Vision 127 Elias L. Rivers Spectacles of Power and Figures of Knowledge in Sor Juana's Allegorical Neptune 135 Verónica Grossi Conventional Genres, Subversive Gestures 144 Sor Juana in Text and Performance: Confronting Meaning 144 Catherine Boyle Sor Juana's Loas: Hybridity in a Historical Context 153 Gwendolyn Alker The House of Trials and the Trials of Masters-Level Research 161 Kathryn Joy McKnight Sor Juana's Petrarchan Poetics" 170 Lisa Rabin Sor Juana; or, The Traps of Translation 178 Daniel P. Hunt, The Answer to Sor Filotea: A Rhetorical Approach 186 Rosa Perelmuter Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Three hundred Years of Controversy and Counting 193 Nina M. Scott The Final Silence of Sor Juana: The Abysmal Remove of Her Closing Night 201 Geoff Guevara-Geer Teaching Sor Juana in the Twenty-First Century 209 Sor Juana's Love Poems Addressed to Women 209 Amanda Powell Visual Technologies as Pedagogical Artifacts: Teaching Sor Juana in a Virtual World 220 Mariselle Meléndez Sor Juana, Food, and the Life of the Mind 229 John A. Ochoa Musical Settings of Sor Juana's Works and Music in Works of Sor Juana 238 Mario A. Ortiz Sor Juana, An Official Habit: Twentieth-Century Mexican Culture 247 Emily Hind Traces of Sor Juana in Contemporary Mexican and Chicana/ Latina Writers 256 Sara Poot-Herrera Notes on Contributors 265 Survey Participants 271 Works Cited 273 Index of Names 305 Index of Works by Sor Juana 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Juana Inãaes de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Juana Inãaes de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695 -- Study and teaching.