Juana Inés de la Cruz

Dzieła

• 1691Odpowiedź siostrze Filotei

  List do biskupa Puebla, który nakłaniał ją do porzucenia świeckich studiów: obrona prawa kobiet do nauki i własnego życia intelektualnego.

Stanowisko

In 1690 Sor Juana criticised a sermon by the Jesuit António Vieira; the bishop of Puebla printed her critique and, writing as “Sor Filotea de la Cruz”, urged her to turn to religious study. Her Reply defends her urge to know as God-given, cites learned women of the past, and reads Paul’s command of silence as forbidding public preaching, not study. The poem First Dream shows the soul trying to grasp the whole universe – first at a single glance, then step by step – and failing. Shortly before her death she gave up her library, for reasons still disputed. She is read today as an early defender of women’s intellectual equality.

Życie i kontekst

Juana Inés de Asbaje was born in San Miguel Nepantla near Mexico City in 1648 or 1651 – the year is disputed – to an unmarried mother. Largely self-taught, she became famous for her learning at the viceregal court. In 1669 she entered the Hieronymite convent of San Jerónimo in Mexico City, where she built a large library and wrote poetry, plays and theological texts. She died in 1695 during an epidemic.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• Athenagoric Letter (Carta atenagórica, 1690)
• Reply to Sor Filotea (Respuesta a Sor Filotea, 1691; published posthumously 1700)
• First Dream (Primero sueño, published 1692)

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