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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz- Obras selectas (Annotated) (Mujeres del Español nº 1)
2017
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz es considerada una de las escritoras más importantes de la literatura hispana, no solo por la calidad y cantidad de obras producidas, sino por hecho de haber sido una mujer en una sociedad controlada por hombres como era la sociedad novohispana (actual México) del siglo XVII. Por este motivo, Editora Delearte la elige como la escritora que inaugura nuestra colección "Mujeres del Español" . Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana nace en 1651 y, a pesar de haber sido tan inteligente o más que cuarenta hombres de la corte que evaluaron sus conocimientos, tuvo que elegir la vida religiosa para continuar sus estudios. Es en el convento, que Juana Inés convertida en Sor Juana, desarrolla la mayor parte de su producción literaria. Considerada una de las primeras feministas, se dedica con pasión a las letras. Esto le genera una larga lista de enemigos. 1695, el año de su muerte, la encuentra dedicada a los oficios religiosos, tal vez por presión de la Iglesia, relegando su amor por la escritura. En esta selección de obras, Editora Delearte le ofrece al lector algunas de sus mejores producciones poéticas y breves explicaciones sobre las mismas. En el libro encontrará ¡Acércate al mundo hispano a través de la mirada femenina con nuestra colección Mujeres del Español !

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Juana Ines de la Cruz
Juana Ines de la Cruz
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Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in a town in the Valley of Mexico to a Creole mother Isabel Ramírez and a Spanish military father, Pedro Manuel de Asbaje. As a child, she learned Nahuatl (Uto-Aztec language spoken in Mexico and Central America) and read and write Spanish in the middle of three years. Thanks to her grandfather's lush library, Juana Inés de la Cruz read the Greek and Roman classics and the theology of the time, she learned Latin in a self-taught way. In 1665, admired for her talent and precocity, she was lady-in-waiting to Leonor Carreto, wife of Viceroy Antonio Sebastián de Toledo. Sponsored by the Marquises of Mancera, she shone in the viceregal court of New Spain for her erudition and versifying ability. In 1667, Juana Inés de la Cruz entered a convent of the Discalced Carmelites of Mexico but soon had to leave due to health problems. Two years later she entered the Order of St. Jerome, remaining there for the rest of her life and being visited by the most illustrious personalities of the time. She had several drawbacks to her activity as a writer, a fact that was frowned upon at the time and that Juana Inés de la Cruz always defended, claiming the right of women to learn. Shortly before her death, she was forced by her confessor to get rid of her library and her collection of musical and scientific instruments so as not to have problems with the Holy Inquisition, very active at that time. She died of a cholera epidemic at the age of forty-three, while helping her sick companions. The emergence of Sor Juana De La Cruz in the late seventeenth century was a cultural miracle and her whole life was a constant effort of stubborn personal and intellectual improvement.
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