Saberes Americanos: Subalternidad Y Epistemología En Los Escritos de Sor Juana

by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel

Sor Juana's work shows a very marked interest in knowledge and the description of the processes of knowledge acquisition and the development of human intellectual capacity in a very particular context; a colonial society that tries to access a series of official debates on education and legitimate ways of knowing of the time. This work studies this theme in Sor Juana's writings in a desire to contextualise her treatment of knowledge in a reflection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930744021
• ISBN13: 9781930744028
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoam
• Length: 297 Pages