Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799

ISBN-13: 9780367885342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Monica Diaz; Rocio Quispe-Agnoli

Opis

The present volume seeks to recover women’s voices and actions while studying the mechanisms through which they authorized themselves and participated in the creation of texts and documents found in archives of colonial Latin America. Organized according to three main themes, "Censorship and the Body," "Female Authority and Legal Discourse," and

Spis treści

Contents

Introduction: Uncovering Women’s Colonial Archive

Mónica Díaz, and Rocío Quispe–Agnoli

Censorship and the Body

Divine Aspirations: Beatas, Writing, and the Inquisition in Late Seventeenth–Century Lima.

Stacey Schlau

Covert Afro–Catholic Agency in the Mystical Visions of Early Modern Brazil’s Rosa Maria Egipçíaca.

Rachel Spaulding

‘In So Celestial a Language’: Text as Body, Relics as Text.

Nancy E. van Deusen

Female Authority and Legal Discourse

In the Shadow of Coatlicue’s Smile: Reconstructing Indigenous Female Subjectivity in the Spanish Colonial Record.

Jeanne Gillespie

Inca Women Under Spanish Rule: Probanzas and Informaciones of the Colonial Andean Elite.

Sara Vicuña Guenguerich

The Bonds of Inheritance: Afro–Peruvian Women’s Legacies in a Slave–holding World.

Karen Graubart

Private Lives and Public Opinion

Letters from the Río de La Plata: Agency and Identity in Colonial Women’s Petitions.

Yamile Silva

Women’s Voices in Eighteenth–Century Spanish American Newspapers.

Mariselle Meléndez

List of Contributors

Index

O autorze

Mónica Díaz is Associate professor of Hispanic Studies and History, and Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the University of Kentucky, USA.

Rocío Quispe-Agnoli is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Michigan State University, USA.