Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (217 p)
ISBN:
9781315401010
Serie:
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Uncovering women's colonial archive -- Mediation, 'delegated writing', and agency -- Colonial women speak in the archive -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: Censorship and the body -- 1. Divine aspirations: Beatas, writing, and the Inquisition in late seventeenth-century Lima -- Beatas and spiritual advisors -- Beatas under the ecclesiastical scrutiny -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
Inhalt:
2. Covert Afro-Catholic agency in the mystical visions of early modern Brazil's Rosa Maria Egipçíaca -- A close reading of Rosa's visions -- Yorùbá spirit possession and mounting -- Afro-Catholic practice -- Rosa before the Portuguese Inquisition -- Rosa's agency, hybrid identity and counter-Catholic discourse -- Rosa's reframed vision -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. 'In so celestial a language': Text as body, relics as text -- The language of celestial spheres: Luisa Melgarejo de Sotomayor -- Hidden voices of divine knowledge: Angela Carranza
Inhalt:
Conclusion: women's bodies and the communication of the ineffable -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART II: Female authority and legal discourse -- 4. In the shadow of Coatlicue's smile: Reconstructing indigenous female subjectivity in the Spanish colonial record -- Medusa meets Coatlicue -- A pre-European female voice in the oral tradition: Macuilxochitl -- Early contact narratives in the Caribbean: Anacaona -- Reading/reconstructing female subjectivity in a Oaxacan legal case -- A powerful female ruler along the Florida Atlantic coast: María Meléndez -- Seeking voices beyond the chronicles -- Notes
Inhalt:
Bibliography -- 5. Inca women under Spanish rule: Probanzas and informaciones of the colonial Andean elite -- Probanzas and informaciones as textual genres -- Coyas, ñustas and señoras naturales -- Huayna Capac's daughter: Doña Inés Huaylas Yupanqui -- The coya of Vilcabamba and Cuzco: Doña María Cusi Huarcay -- The daughter of the last Inca of Vilcabamba: Doña Magdalena Mama Huaco -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. The bonds of inheritance: Afro-Peruvian women's legacies in a slave-holding world -- Naming oneself in freedom
Inhalt:
Unstable terrain: wealth, marginality, and the limits of manumission -- Deathbed manumission: balancing legacies -- Conclusion: defining freedom in a culture of slavery -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART III: Private lives and public opinions -- 7. Letters from the Río de La Plata: Agency and identity in colonial women's petitions -- Letter writing: a brief overview -- On the foundation of Santa Fe and Buenos Aires: Isabel de Becerra y Mendoza -- Petitioning favors, benefits and rewards: María de los Cobos
Inhalt:
Fidelity discourse and the pacification of tyrants and Indians: Doña Mariana Osorio de Narváez
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781138225046
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Women's negotiations and textual agency in Latin America, 1500-1799 New York : Routledge, 2017 ISBN 9781138225046
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Romanistik
Schlagwort(e):
Lateinamerika
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Frauenliteratur
;
Geschichte 1500-1799
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Electronic books
Mehr zum Autor:
Quispe-Agnoli, Rocío
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