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Quill and Cross in the Borderlands - Sor Maria de Agreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present (Hardcover)
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Quill and Cross in the Borderlands - Sor Maria de Agreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present (Hardcover)
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Quill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred
years of history, folklore, literature, and art concerning the
seventeenth-century Spanish nun and writer Sor Maria de Jesus de
Agreda, identified as the legendary "Lady in Blue" who miraculously
appeared to tribes in colonial-era New Mexico and taught them the
rudiments of the Catholic faith. Sor Maria, an author of mystical
Marian works, became renowned not only for her alleged spiritual
travel from her cloister in Spain to the New World, but also for
her writing, studied and implemented by Franciscans on both sides
of the ocean. Working from original historical accounts, archival
research, and a wealth of literature on the legend and the
historical figure alike, Anna M. Nogar meticulously examines how
and why the legend and the person became intertwined in Catholic
consciousness and social praxis. In addition to the influence of
the narrative of the Lady in Blue in colonial Mexico, Nogar
addresses Sor Maria's importance as an author of spiritual texts
that influenced many spheres of New Spanish and Spanish society.
Quill and Cross in the Borderlands focuses on the reading and
interpretation of her works, especially in New Spain, where they
were widely printed and disseminated. Over time, in the developing
folklore of the Indo-Hispano populations of the present-day U.S.
Southwest and the borderlands, the historical Sor Maria and her
writings virtually disappeared from view, and the Lady in Blue
became a prominent folk figure, appearing in folk stories and
popular histories. These folk accounts drew the Lady in Blue into
the present day, where she appears in artwork, literature, theater,
and public ritual. Nogar's examination of these contemporary
renderings leads to a reconsideration of the ambiguities that lie
at the heart of the narrative. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands
documents the material legacy of a legend that has survived and
thrived for hundreds of years, and at the same time rediscovers the
historical basis of a hidden writer. This book will interest
scholars and researchers of colonial Latin American literature,
early modern women writers, folklore and ethnopoetics, and Mexican
American cultural studies.
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