Quill and cross in the borderlands : Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the present / Anna M. Nogar.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Nogar, Anna M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

María de Jesús, de Agreda, sor, 1602-1665.

María de Jesús.

Nuns--Folklore.

Nuns.

Folklore--New Mexico.

Folklore.

New Mexico.

Physical Description:

xv, 457 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the present

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction : a literary protomissionary in the borderlands

Seventeenth-century spiritual travel to New Mexico : a miracle narrative in text

Sor María's rise as mystical writer and protomissionary in early modern Spain

"Como si fuera natural de México" : publication, reading, and interpretation of Sor Mariưa's writing in colonial Mexico

"Aquella voz de las conversiones" : writer and missionary on the new Spanish frontier

Blue lady of lore : the lady in blue narrative and Sor María in the folklore of the American Southwest

Sor María and the Lady in Blue in contemporary cultural imagination

Conclusion : quill and cross in the borderlands.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268102135

0268102139

OCLC:

1029088658