Colonial Angels

Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750

Autor: Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

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Editura: University of Texas Press

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Spain's attempt to establish a 'New Spain' in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions...

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Autor

Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1999

Pagini

222

EAN

9780292777484

ISBN

0292777485

Enbook ID

04874014

Editura

University of Texas Press

Greutate

624

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 12

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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 about colonial religious women participated in this transformation, as it illuminates the role that gender played in imposing the Spanish empire in Mexico. The author argues that the New World context necessitated the creation of a new kind of writing. Drawing on previously unpublished writings by and about nuns in the convents of Mexico City, she investigates such topics as the relationship between hagiography and travel narratives, male visions of the feminine that emerge from the reworking of a nun's letters to her confessor into a hagiography, the discourse surrounding a convent's trial for heresy by the Inquisition, and the reports of Spanish priests who ministered to noble Indian women. This research rounds out colonial Mexican history by revealing how tensions between Spain and its colonies played out in the local, daily lives of women. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela is a Research Fellow in Hispanic Studies at King's College, Cambridge.

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Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750

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