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Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [a] OSH (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), [1] was a New Spain (considered Mexican by many authors) [2] writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, as well as a Hieronymite nun, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse" and "The Phoenix of America" by her contemporary critics. [1]
Sor Juana agrees. A political enemy of the Archbishop's encourages Sor Juana to write a rebuttal to one of the favourite theologians of the Archbishop. Sor Juana obliges believing the paper is for private circulation. However the work is published along with an attack on Sor Juana condemning her entire oeuvre. In Spain the first volume of Sor ...
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Baroque music composer, philosopher and poet, portrait by Miguel Cabrera. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651 - 1695), known as the "Tenth Muse", was born on 12 November 1651 in San Miguel Nepantla and died in Mexico City on April 17, 1695. She was one of the greatest writers during the Golden Age. Her passion for ...
Sor Juana penned The House of Desire in celebration of José, the son of Tomás de la Cerda y Aragón and wife María Luisa Manrique de Lara y Gonzaga (nicknamed "Lysi" by the nuns in her community), who were Marquises of La Laguna and Viceroys of New Spain, as well as significant patrons of the poet. [10]
Her published work includes Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Feminist Reconstruction of Biography and Text where she identifies de la Cruz's life and work as a precursor to current ecofeminist theologies. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This book is the basis for her 2019 Ted-Ed Animation entitled History’s Worst Nun documenting the details of 17th century Mexican ...
Humanismo y religión en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Ciudad de Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 1983. Benoist, Valérie. “‘El escribirlo no parte de la osadía: Tradición y mímica en la loa para El divino Narciso de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.” Latin American Theatre Review. 33. (1999): 73-90. Web. 27 Nov. 2011
Sor Juana's Jeronymite order had only 3 houses. [52] [53] The largest concentration of convents was in the capital, Mexico City, with 11 built between 1540 and 1630, and, by 1780 another 10 for a total of 21. [54] These institutions were designed for the daughters of elites, with individual living quarters not only for the nuns, but also their ...
Miguel Cabrera painting Sor Juana with help. The image of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) and Miguel Mateo Maldonado Cabrera (1695–1768) [89] fills the center of the colonial panel. Note that Sor Juana died in 1695, the same year that Miguel Cabrera was born. Cabrera nevertheless painted a renowned portrait of Sor Juana.