Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Book Overview

Sor Juana In s de la Cruz--a witty, intellectually formidable, and prolific author--stands as an icon of women's early writing and of colonial New Spain. Living in the capital city of seventeenth-century Mexico, she was located in the center of her world, but, as a self-taught, illegitimate, Creole woman and as a nun subject to the authority of male religious leaders, she was also socially marginal within that world. Like other early modern women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873528166
• ISBN13: 9780873528160
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher