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Quill and cross in the borderlands : Sor Maria de Agreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the present / Anna M. Nogar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nogar, Anna M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--New Mexico.
- Folklore.
- Nuns--Folklore.
- Nuns.
- Maria de Jesus, de Agreda, sor, 1602-1665.
- Maria de Jesus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (475 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Quill and Cross in the Borderlands focuses on the works of Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, especially in New Spain, where they were widely printed and disseminated.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a literary protomissionary in the borderlands
- Seventeenth-century spiritual travel to New Mexico : a miracle narrative in text
- Sor Maria's rise as mystical writer and protomissionary in early modern Spain
- "Como si fuera natural de Mexico" : publication, reading, and interpretation of Sor Mariua'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 Maria in the folklore of the American Southwest
- Sor Maria and the Lady in Blue in contemporary cultural imagination
- Conclusion : quill and cross in the borderlands.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-268-10215-5
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