In the early 19th century, a nun at the Convent of Santa Clara de Querétaro sat down to write her autobiography. This little-known document, which only got as far as narrating the first seven years of her life, offers information on daily life in that provincial home, into which she was adopted by an indigenous family. Equally important is her attempt to reconstruct her childhood as if she had been predestined for the spiritual life that, she wrote, developed from earliest infancy. This nun's interest in representing herself as one of God's chosen at such an early age speaks to us of an attempt -both literary and spiritual- to reconfigure her person. Though the process was truncated by her death, her writings broaden our vision of the autob...
During the 16th and 17th centuries the convents were the best space for women’s writing. A Spanish n...
Throughout the colonial period of Mexican history, cloistered nuns wrote spiritual journals at the r...
Santa Teresa de Jesús (1515-1582), es uno de los bastiones incuestionables de la literatura mística ...
Mi vida es una obra autobiografía escrita por la religiosa neogranadina Francisca Josefa del Castill...
Mi vida es una obra autobiografía escrita por la religiosa neogranadina Francisca Josefa del Castill...
Madre Josefa del Castillo wrote Su vida (1713-1724) at the behest of her confessor due to her spirit...
Kept in the. Municipal Archive of Gijón, there are two manuscript booklet containing the original au...
Tanto la autobiografía como el retrato buscan captar el sentido de un rostro, la verdad escondida qu...
Este trabajo propone una aproximación al relato autobiográfico conventual de fines del siglo XVII y ...
En 1707 y en el Convento de Santa Clara de Santafé de Bogotá, Jerónima Nava y Saavedra comenzó a esc...
The convent was the privileged space for female writing in the Spanish Renaissance. In the intimac...
Lives, trajectories, frustrations, discoveries and verifications. These are some of the several sen...
Por medio de la formación y estudio en la el proceso formativo de la experiencia de la licenciatura ...
Publicado póstumamente, el Diario de Bitita integra el conjunto de escritos memorialistas de Carolin...
The book Convento Espiritual (Spiritual Convent) of the Spanish nun Ursula de San Diego,possibly wri...
During the 16th and 17th centuries the convents were the best space for women’s writing. A Spanish n...
Throughout the colonial period of Mexican history, cloistered nuns wrote spiritual journals at the r...
Santa Teresa de Jesús (1515-1582), es uno de los bastiones incuestionables de la literatura mística ...
Mi vida es una obra autobiografía escrita por la religiosa neogranadina Francisca Josefa del Castill...
Mi vida es una obra autobiografía escrita por la religiosa neogranadina Francisca Josefa del Castill...
Madre Josefa del Castillo wrote Su vida (1713-1724) at the behest of her confessor due to her spirit...
Kept in the. Municipal Archive of Gijón, there are two manuscript booklet containing the original au...
Tanto la autobiografía como el retrato buscan captar el sentido de un rostro, la verdad escondida qu...
Este trabajo propone una aproximación al relato autobiográfico conventual de fines del siglo XVII y ...
En 1707 y en el Convento de Santa Clara de Santafé de Bogotá, Jerónima Nava y Saavedra comenzó a esc...
The convent was the privileged space for female writing in the Spanish Renaissance. In the intimac...
Lives, trajectories, frustrations, discoveries and verifications. These are some of the several sen...
Por medio de la formación y estudio en la el proceso formativo de la experiencia de la licenciatura ...
Publicado póstumamente, el Diario de Bitita integra el conjunto de escritos memorialistas de Carolin...
The book Convento Espiritual (Spiritual Convent) of the Spanish nun Ursula de San Diego,possibly wri...
During the 16th and 17th centuries the convents were the best space for women’s writing. A Spanish n...
Throughout the colonial period of Mexican history, cloistered nuns wrote spiritual journals at the r...
Santa Teresa de Jesús (1515-1582), es uno de los bastiones incuestionables de la literatura mística ...