Madre Josefa del Castillo wrote Su vida (1713-1724) at the behest of her confessor due to her spiritual visions. This account emerges from what was formerly considered the margins of the Latin American Archive, nuns’ Lives, and shows how the Colombian author encodes her writing in an affective rhetoric, focusing on suffering, in order to gain authority and represent herself. Although pain appears as the meeting point where power and the female body encounter —depicting how she embodies the position addressed to women within the mystical discourse with self-annihilation and self-negation being the only alternatives— Francisca Josefa manages to find a space of enunciation in the interstices. The configuration of an “aching” self allows her to...
Tanto la autobiografía como el retrato buscan captar el sentido de un rostro, la verdad escondida qu...
The book Convento Espiritual (Spiritual Convent) of the Spanish nun Ursula de San Diego,possibly wri...
The convent was the privileged space for female writing in the Spanish Renaissance. In the intimac...
Pretendo un primer desciframiento de la Vida y los Afectos Espirituales de la Madre Francisca Josefa...
Excerpt En esta edicion critica, Beatriz Ferrus Anton y Nuria Girona Fibla nos ofrecen la oportunida...
In the early 19th century, a nun at the Convent of Santa Clara de Querétaro sat down to write her au...
Este libro forma parte de la Colección Clásica de la Biblioteca Ayacucho, entre cuyos proyectos cult...
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...
During the 16th and 17th centuries the convents were the best space for women’s writing. A Spanish n...
Teresa de Cartagena and Saint Teresa of Avila came from Jewish converso families, and they...
This text reflects on Sor Francisca Josefa del Castillo y Guevara (1671-1742), observing not so much...
This article examines the forms how suffering is inscribed in the body, by analyzing the narrations ...
En torno a los años 1470-1475, la religiosa Teresa de Cartagena (sobrina del prestigioso humanista A...
El desarrollo de esta investigación se fundamenta en la intención de develar la forma cómo la escrit...
Tanto la autobiografía como el retrato buscan captar el sentido de un rostro, la verdad escondida qu...
The book Convento Espiritual (Spiritual Convent) of the Spanish nun Ursula de San Diego,possibly wri...
The convent was the privileged space for female writing in the Spanish Renaissance. In the intimac...
Pretendo un primer desciframiento de la Vida y los Afectos Espirituales de la Madre Francisca Josefa...
Excerpt En esta edicion critica, Beatriz Ferrus Anton y Nuria Girona Fibla nos ofrecen la oportunida...
In the early 19th century, a nun at the Convent of Santa Clara de Querétaro sat down to write her au...
Este libro forma parte de la Colección Clásica de la Biblioteca Ayacucho, entre cuyos proyectos cult...
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...
During the 16th and 17th centuries the convents were the best space for women’s writing. A Spanish n...
Teresa de Cartagena and Saint Teresa of Avila came from Jewish converso families, and they...
This text reflects on Sor Francisca Josefa del Castillo y Guevara (1671-1742), observing not so much...
This article examines the forms how suffering is inscribed in the body, by analyzing the narrations ...
En torno a los años 1470-1475, la religiosa Teresa de Cartagena (sobrina del prestigioso humanista A...
El desarrollo de esta investigación se fundamenta en la intención de develar la forma cómo la escrit...
Tanto la autobiografía como el retrato buscan captar el sentido de un rostro, la verdad escondida qu...
The book Convento Espiritual (Spiritual Convent) of the Spanish nun Ursula de San Diego,possibly wri...
The convent was the privileged space for female writing in the Spanish Renaissance. In the intimac...