Indigenous Writings from the Convent : Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico /
Indigenous Writings from the Convent examines ways in which indigenous women participated in one of the most prominent institutions in colonial times--the Catholic Church--and what they made of their experience with convent life. This book will appeal to scholars of literary criticism, women's...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Indigenous nobility and conventual foundations
- The idea of corpus Christi : discursive effects of colonialism
- Indigenous women and religious life : stereotype and ambivalence
- Biographies and hagiographies : the different perspectives of gender
- Panegyric sermons : dialogic spaces and examples of virtue
- Letters from the convent : struggles through the written word.