Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women
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Author_Elizabeth Teresa Howe
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Discalced Carmelite
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early modern Spain
Enrique II
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female autobiographical texts analysis
Fernando De Antequera
gendered authorship
Hispanic literary studies
Juan II
La Monja
La Respuesta
Las Cartas
Las Sombras
Lieutenant Nun
Literary Self-Fashioning
obras
Oliva Sabuco De Nantes
Pozuelo Yvancos
religious self-representation
Santa Teresa De
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Visionary Life
Women's Autobiographical Writing
women's life narratives
Women’s Autobiographical Writing
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- ISBN 9781472435774
- Weight: 725g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period. There are, indeed, examples of autobiographical writing by women in Spain and its New World empire, evident as early as the fourteenth-century Memorias penned by Doña Leonor López de Cordóba and continuing through the seventeenth-century Cartas of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. What sets these accounts apart, the author shows, are the variety of forms adopted by each woman to tell her life and the circumstances in which she adapts her narrative to satisfy the presence of male critics-whether ecclesiastic or political, actual or imagined-who would dismiss or even alter her life story. Analyzing how each of these women viewed her life and, conversely, how their contemporaries-both male and female-received and sometimes edited her account, Howe reveals the tension in the texts between telling a ’life’ and telling a ’lie’.
Elizabeth Teresa Howe is Professor of Spanish at Tufts University, USA. Her other books include Education and Women in the Early Modern Hispanic World (2008) and The Visionary Life of Madre Ana de San AgustÃn (2004).
