Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction. Emilie L. Bergmann and Stacey Schlau
A Note About Conventions
I. Contexts
1. "The Empire and Mexico City: Religious, Political, and Social Institutions of a Transatlantic Enterprise." Alejandro Cañeque
2. "The Creole Intellectual Project: Creating the Baroque Archive." Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
3. "The Gendering of Knowledge in New Spain: Enclosure, Women’s Education, and Writing." Stephanie Kirk
II. Reception History
4. "Seventeenth Century Dialogues: Transatlantic Readings of Sor Juana." Mónica Díaz
5. "Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Readings: Hagiography and Nationalism." Martha Lilia Tenorio
6. "Twentieth Century Readings: Schons, Pfandl, and Paz." Marie-Cécile Benassy-Berling
7. "Passionate Advocate: Sor Juana, Feminisms, and Sapphic Loves." Amanda Powell
8. "Translations of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Ideology and Interpretation." Isabel Gómez
9. "’My original, a woman’: Copies, Origins, and Sor Juana’s Iconic Portraits." J. Vanessa Lyon
10. "Contemporary Mexican Sor Juanas: Artistic, Popular, and Scholarly." Emily Hind
III. Interpretations of and Debates about the Works
A. Prose Works
11. "The Afterlife of a Polemic: Conflicts and Discoveries Regarding Sor Juana’s Letters." Marie-Cécile Benassy-Berling
12. "Challenging Theological Authority: The Carta Atenagórica /Crisis de un sermón and the Respuesta a sor Filotea." Grady Wray
B. Verse
13. "Sor Juana’s Love Poetry: A Woman’s Voice in a Man’s Genre." Emilie L. Bergmann
14. "Sor Juana’s Romances: Between Fame, Contemplation, and Celebration." Rocío Quispe-Agnoli
15. "Philosophical Sonnets: Through a Baroque Lens." Luis Avilés
16. "Primero sueño: Heresy and Knowledge." Alessandra Luiselli.
C. Theater and Public Art
17. "Writing for the Public Eye: Theatrical Production, Church Spectacle, and State-Sponsored Art (The Neptuno alegórico)." Verónica Grossi
18. "Sor Juana as Lyricist and Musical Theorist." Mario Ortiz
19. "Loa to El Divino Narciso: The Costs of Critiquing the Conquest." Ivonne del Valle
20. "The Autos: Theology on Stage." Linda Egan
21. "Los empeños de una casa: Staging Gender." Susana Hernández Araico
22. "Recently Discovered Plays: La segunda Celestina and Amor es más laberinto." Guillermo Schmidhuber
IV. Future Directions for Research
23. "Understudied Aspects of Canonical Works and Potential Approaches to Little-Studied Works." George Antony Thomas
Works Cited