The Answer / La Respuesta by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

It includes the fully annotated primary text responding to the church officials the letter that ultimately provoked the writing of The Answer an expanded selection of poems an updated bibliography and a new preface. Numerous pages are devoted to the generally accepted belief that Sor Juana was not a mystic, and then the author condescendingly states, with respect to her rationalism, that she unquestionably had a childlike ( sic) zeal when it came to knowledge. In 'Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Feminist Reconstruction of Biography and Text,' Yugar invites you to accompany seventeenth-century protofeminist and ecofeminist in the Americas, Sor. This expanded, bilingual edition combines new research and perspectives on an inspired writer and thinker. While earlier translators have ignored Sor Juana's keen awareness of gender, this volume brings out her own emphasis and diction, and reveals the remarkable scholarship, subversiveness, and even humor she drew on in defense of her cause. The Answer/La Respuesta (1691) is is Sor Juana's impassioned response to years of attempts by church officials to silence her. The Answer / La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poems (A Feminist Press Sourcebook). The central argument of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz s letter 'The Answer' is that knowledge and the pursuit of knowledge are good for all people, men and women alike. ell, The Answer / La Respuesta (New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of. Known as the first feminist of the Americas, the Mexican nun Sor Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz enjoyed an international reputation as one of the great lyric poets and dramatists of her time. famous letter/treatise, Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz (1648/511695). Defiant writing by the first feminist of the Americasthe Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruzin response to the church officials that tried to silence her.

The Answer / La Respuesta by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz