Answer / La Respuesta (Expanded Edition): Including Sor Filotea's Letter and New Selected Poems by Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, Electa Arenal (Translator), Amanda Powell (Translator)
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(Paperback - Bilingual)
- Pub. Date: June 2009
- 232pp
- Sales Rank: 251,818
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 2009
- Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY, The
- Format: Paperback, 232pp
- Sales Rank: 251,818
- ISBN-13: 9781558615984
- ISBN: 1558615989
- Edition Number: 2
- Edition Description: Bilingual
Synopsis
"[The Answer] is eloquent, sardonic, learned and, particularly in its autobiographical part, of great freshness."-The Times Literary Supplement
"One of the landmarks of Renaissance literature and . . . in the history of intellectual freedom. . . . This is essential reading."-Stephen Greenblatt, best-selling author and professor
"Recommended for informed readers."-Library Journal
Expanded to include fresh translations, an updated bibliography, and the letter that provoked the writing of The Answer, this new edition of the bilingual, critical bestseller provides the most accurate translations of works by the iconic seventeenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
More Reviews and RecommendationsBiography
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-1695), a Mexican nun, was a brilliant poet, playwright, and essayist whose persistent defense of the intellectual rights of women brought her increasingly into conflict with church officials, who repeated tried to silence her. Sor Juana died by taking care her sister nuns during a plague in April 1695.
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