This book traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse’s renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her Fama y obras póstumas [Fame and Posthumous Works] of 1700.
Margo Echenberg is an Academic Associate in Teaching and Learning Services at McGill University
Innehållsförteckning
A Note on the Text Abbreviations Illustration Acknowledgements Introduction: Negotiating Rumor and Fame: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Posthumous Fama Chapter 1: The Fama: A Posthumous Imaging and Imagining of Sor Juana Chapter 2: Soaring Above the Rest: Sor Juana as the “Sacred Phoenix” and the Fama as Moral Exhortation Chapter 3: Light from the New World: Posthumous Praise for an American Mind Chapter 4: With “Quills of Ink” and “Wings of Fragile Paper”: Sor Juana Responds to Her Public Image Afterword (Or Why Think of the Fama as a Success if it Fails on Almost all Fronts?)