Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- 1 Indigenous Herencias
- 2 Performing to a Captive Audience
- 3 The Tricks of the Weak
- 4 Rethinking the Colonial Latinx Literary Imaginary
- 5 The Historical and Imagined Cultural Genealogies of Latinidad
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
3 - The Tricks of the Weak
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Feminist Temporality of Latina Literature
from Part I - Rereading the Colonial Archive
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- 1 Indigenous Herencias
- 2 Performing to a Captive Audience
- 3 The Tricks of the Weak
- 4 Rethinking the Colonial Latinx Literary Imaginary
- 5 The Historical and Imagined Cultural Genealogies of Latinidad
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
The vast Seventeenth-Century body of work by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz made her renowned as the "Tenth Muse of America" but has also, from the moment of its publication, transformed her into a generative model for critics and artists. Sor Juana intensely pursued an intellectual life outside the constraints of marriage and reproduction, bringing her into direct conflict with the structures of power in her society and requiring her to hone what contemporary readers recognise as subaltern strategies for survival. Thus, Sor Juana has become a prototype for Latina artists and critics responding to the legacies of colonialism and patriarchal institutions. This chapter traces the development of Sor Juanian studies and examines contemporary Latina art simultaneously, in order to see how the nun's legacy has affected both reflection and praxis. From queering temporality to questioning the possibility of translation, radically contextualising the material circumstances of the colony to insisting on the power of philosophical concepts, work inspired by Sor Juana continues to refute attempts to categorize, providing instead alternative genealogies for Latina studies and art.
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