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Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women

Autor Elizabeth Teresa Howe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 iun 2019
Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period. There are, indeed, examples of autobiographical writing by women in Spain and its New World empire, evident as early as the fourteenth-century Memorias penned by Doña Leonor López de Cordóba and continuing through the seventeenth-century Cartas of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. What sets these accounts apart, the author shows, are the variety of forms adopted by each woman to tell her life and the circumstances in which she adapts her narrative to satisfy the presence of male critics-whether ecclesiastic or political, actual or imagined-who would dismiss or even alter her life story. Analyzing how each of these women viewed her life and, conversely, how their contemporaries-both male and female-received and sometimes edited her account, Howe reveals the tension in the texts between telling a ’life’ and telling a ’lie’.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138379992
ISBN-10: 1138379999
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1 Telling Li(v)es: Women and Autobiography
2 Court and Convent: Leonor López de Córdoba and Sor Teresa de Cartagena
3 Carmelite and Cloister: Santa Teresa de Jesús
4 In the Footsteps of Santa Teresa: Carmelite Nuns and the Reform(er)
5 Soldier in New Spain: Catalina de Erauso
6 Defending Her Life: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Conclusion
Appendix: Confessors, Directors, and Editors of Santa Teresa

Recenzii

'Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women represents an excellent synthesis of theoretical work on autobiography as genre, and brings together previous studies on female life-writing Spain and the New World with new insights.' Alison P. Weber, University of Virginia, USA

Notă biografică

Elizabeth Teresa Howe is Professor of Spanish at Tufts University, USA. Her other books include Education and Women in the Early Modern Hispanic World (2008) and The Visionary Life of Madre Ana de San Agustín (2004).

Descriere

Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period, both in Spain and in Mexico.