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ISBN-10: 0393351882
ISBN-13: 9780393351880
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 11/30/2015
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.10" W, 0.60" H

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works

Translator: Edith Grossman
Introduction by: Julia Alvarez

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Overview

Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her “the Tenth Muse” and “the Phoenix of Mexico,” names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age.

This volume includes Sor Juana’s best-known works: “First Dream,” her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and “Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz,” her epistolary feminist defense–evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson–of a woman’s right to study and to write. Thirty other works–playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavor–are also included.

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Edith Grossman is a marvel. With the greatest artistry she has given vibrant, contemporary voice to Sor Juana, legendary proto-feminist bard of seventeenth-century Mexico, capturing the wit, tenderness, and religious fervor of her work.–Susan Bernofsky, translator of Kafka's The Metamorphosis
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393351882
ISBN-13: 9780393351880
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 11/30/2015
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.10" W, 0.60" H
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