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Neither saints nor sinners : writing the lives of women in Spanish America / Kathleen Ann Myers.
LIBRA BX4225 .M94 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Kathleen Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuns--Latin America--Biography--History and criticism.
- Nuns.
- Latin American literature--To 1800--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Biography.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195157222
- 0195157230
- OCLC:
- 49894331
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