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Neither saints nor sinners : writing the lives of women in Spanish America.
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Neither saints nor sinners : writing the lives of women in Spanish America.

Author: Kathleen Ann Myers
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records,  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Biographies
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kathleen Ann Myers
ISBN: 0195157222 9780195157222 0195157230 9780195157239
OCLC Number: 49894331
Language Note: Includes excerpts from seventeenth century texts translated from Spanish.
Description: xiii, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Potential saints --
Redeemer of America: Rosa de Lima (1586-1617)-The dynamics of identity and canonization --
La China Poblana: Catarina de San Juan (ca. 1607-1688)-Hagiography and the inquisition --
The mystic nun: Madre María de San José (1656-1719)-Confession and autobiography --
Not quite sinners --
The tenth muse: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)-Letters and learning in the church --
The happy saint: Ursula Suárez (1666-1849)-Rogues and new saintly roles --
The lieutenant nun: Catalina de Erauso (1592?-1650)-Soldiers' tales and virginity.
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