"This is a fascinating, well-written, and suggestive account of the
intersections of gender and genre in writing by and about religious
women in colonial Mexico.... Sampson's overview of these women's
narratives provides a wealth of information about the personal
lives and thoughts of a doubly silenced group: cloistered religious
women." -- Catherine Jaffe, Associate Professor of Spanish,
Southwest Texas State University
Spain's attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully
succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices
inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American
outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book
explores how writing by and about colonial religious women
participated in this transformation, as it illuminates the role
that gender played in imposing the Spanish empire in Mexico.
The author argues that the New World context necessitated the
creation of a new kind of writing. Drawing on previously
unpublished writings by and about nuns in the convents of Mexico
City, she investigates such topics as the relationship between
hagiography and travel narratives, male visions of the feminine
that emerge from the reworking of a nun's letters to her confessor
into a hagiography, the discourse surrounding a convent's trial for
heresy by the Inquisition, and the reports of Spanish priests who
ministered to noble Indian women. This research rounds out colonial
Mexican history by revealing how tensions between Spain and its
colonies played out in the local, daily lives of women.
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