Women's negotiations and textual agency in Latin America, 1500-1799 / edited by Mónica Díaz and Rocío Quispe-Agnoli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Díaz, Mónica, 1974- editor.

Quispe-Agnoli, Rocío, editor.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Women and literature--Latin America.

Women and literature.

Latin American literature--Women authors.

Latin America.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 203 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Even though women have been historically underrepresented in official histories and literary and artistic traditions, their voices and writings can be found in abundance in the many archives of the world where they remain to be uncovered. 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 "Private Lives and Public Opinions," the essays in this collection focus on women's knowledge and the discursive traces of their daily concerns found in various colonial genres. Herein we consider women not only as agents of history, but rather as authors of written records produced either by their own hand or by means of dictations, collaborations, or rewritings of their oral renditions. Inhabiting the territories of the Iberian colonies from Peru to New Spain, the women studied in this volume come from different ethnic and social backgrounds, from African slaves to the indigenous elite and to those who arrived from Iberia and were known as "Old Christians." Finally, we have prepare this volume in hopes that the readers will-find a particular appeal in archival sources, in lesser-known documents, and in the processes involved in the circulation of knowledge and print culture between the 1500s and the late 1700s. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Censorship and the body 17

1 Divine aspirations: Batas, writing, and the Inquisition in late seventeenth-century Lima / Stacey Schlau Schlau, Stacey 19

2 Covert Afro-Catholic agency in the mystical visions of early modern Brazil's Rosa Maria Egipçíaca / Rachel Spaulding Spaulding, Rachel 38

3 'In so celestial a language': Text as body, relics as text / Nancy E. Van Deusen Deusen, Nancy E. Van 62

Part II Female authority and legal discourse 83

4 In the shadow of Coatlicue's smile: Reconstructing indigenous female subjectivity in the Spanish colonial record / Jeanne Gillespie Gillespie, Jeanne 85

5 Inca women under Spanish rule: Probanzas and informaciones of the colonial Andean elite / Sara Vicuña Guengerich Guengerich, Sara Vicuña 106

6 The bonds of inheritance: Afro-Peruvian women's legacies in a slave-holding world / Karen B. Graubart Graubart, Karen B. 130

Part III Private lives and public opinions 151

7 Letters from the Río de La Plata: Agency and identity in colonial women's petitions / Yamile Silva Silva, Yamile 153

8 Women's voices in eighteenth-century Spanish American newspapers / Mariselle Melendez Melendez, Mariselle 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138225046

1138225045

OCLC:

958224481