Virtudes de la penitencia, recompensas del amor: literatura conventual femenina en México del siglo XVIII
The genre of female conventual literature, which featured illustrious precursors such as medieval mystics and Santa Teresa, had acquired considerable momentum since the 17th century in New Spain and South America. Its topic alluded to strict penances, convulsive illuminations, periods of loneliness...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos PROLAM/USP |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/220142 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.usp.br/prolam/article/view/220142 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Female conventual literature Spiritual Diaries Hagiographies Mexico Eighteenth Century Literatura conventual feminina Diários espirituais Hagiografias México Século XVIII Literatura conventual femenina Diarios espirituales Hagiografías Siglo XVIII |
| Sumario: | The genre of female conventual literature, which featured illustrious precursors such as medieval mystics and Santa Teresa, had acquired considerable momentum since the 17th century in New Spain and South America. Its topic alluded to strict penances, convulsive illuminations, periods of loneliness and waiting, and the dilemmas of describing intimate experiences with the divine that could not be described (although they should be described) with common language. For the nuns, writing was a practice always subjected to observation and censorship, but also an instrument to elucidate their fears and desires, and a way to assert a position and a voice among the rigid conditions that governed the cloister. In this work, we will focus on two nuns who lived and wrote in the Mexican convent of San Juan de la Penitencia in the 18th century, Sor Sebastiana Josefa de la Santísima Trinidad and Sor Maria de Jesús Felipa. |
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