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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sampson Vera Tudela, Elisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
Temas:
Literature and society > Mexico.
Mexican prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Mexican prose literature > To 1800 > History and criticism.
Nuns' writings, Mexican -.
Nuns' writings, Mexican > History and criticism.
Sex role > Political aspects > Mexico.
Women and literature > Mexico.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Moving Stories: New Spanish Hagiographies and Their Relation to Travel Narrative
  • Chapter 2. Chronicles of a Colonial Cloister: The Convent of San Jose and the Mexican Carmelites
  • Chapter 3. From the Confessional to the Altar: Epistolary and Hagiographic Forms
  • Chapter 4. The Exemplary Cloister on Trial: San Jose in the Inquisition
  • Chapter 5. Cacique Nuns: From Saints' Lives to Indian Lives
  • Afterword
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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