The Answer / La Respuesta (Expanded Edition): Including Sor Filotea's Letter and New Selected Poems

by de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés
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Known as the first feminist of the Americas, the Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz enjoyed an international reputation as one of the great lyric poets and dramatists of her time. 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.

This expanded, bilingual edition combines new research and perspectives on an inspired writer and thinker. It includes the fully annotated primary text, The Answer/La Respuesta (1691), which is Sor Juana's impassioned response to years of attempts by church officials to silence her; the letter that ultimately provoked the writing of The Answer; an expanded selection of poems; an updated bibliography; and a new preface.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés
  • ISBN: 9781558615984
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 232
  • Publication Year: 2009

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