The Answer/ La Respuesta
by De La Cruz, Sor Juana InsEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-06-01
Publisher(s): Feminist Pr
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Summary
"[ 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 JournalExpanded 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 Ineacute;s de la Cruz.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. vii |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
| Abbreviations | p. xxiii |
| Chronology | p. xxiv |
| Introduction | |
| Sor Juana's Life and Work | p. 1 |
| Juana Ramirez / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648/51-1695): A Life Without and Within | p. 1 |
| A Poet-Scholar: Sor Juana's Writing | p. 15 |
| La Respuesta / The Answer: A Reading | p. 19 |
| Sor Juana's Art and Argument | p. 19 |
| The Issues at Stake | p. 25 |
| A Different Worldview, a Different Law: A Woman-Centered Vision | p. 31 |
| A Note on the Texts | p. 37 |
| Respuesta de la poetisa a la muy ilustre | p. 38 |
| The Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sister Filotea de la Cruz | p. 39 |
| Annotations to La Respuesta / The Answer | p. 106 |
| Selected Poems | |
| Introduction | p. 144 |
| Romance: Prologo al lector / Ballad: Prologue to the Reader of these Poems | p. 154 |
| Sonetos / Sonnets | |
| Este, que ves, engano colorido | p. 158 |
| This object which you see | p. 159 |
| Si los riesgos del mar considerara | p. 158 |
| With all the hazards of the sea in mind | p. 159 |
| Esta tarde, mi bien, cuando te hablaba | p. 160 |
| This afternoon, my darling, when we spoke | p. 161 |
| Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo | p. 160 |
| Don't leave me, shadow of elusive love | p. 161 |
| <$$$>Que es esto, Alcino? | p. 162 |
| What's this, Alcino? | p. 163 |
| Mandas, Anarda, que sin llanto asista | p. 162 |
| Anarda, you command me to observe | p. 163 |
| Satira filosofica / Philosophical Satire | |
| Hombres necios que acusais | p. 164 |
| You foolish and unreasoning men | p. 165 |
| Villancicos / Carols | |
| For the Feast of the Assumption, 1676 | |
| Vengan a ver una apuesta | p. 168 |
| They're betting, so hurry for all that you're worth | p. 169 |
| La soberana Doctora | p. 172 |
| She is a sovereign Doctor | p. 173 |
| Aquella Zagala | p. 174 |
| That shepherd lass | p. 175 |
| For the Feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1691 | |
| De una mujer se convencen | p. 178 |
| The learned men of Egypt | p. 179 |
| Rosa es, cuyo casto velo | p. 182 |
| She is a Rose, and when she flowered | p. 183 |
| Erase una Nina | p. 186 |
| Once upon a time this Girl | p. 187 |
| Romance epistolar / Epistolary Ballad | |
| íValgate Apolo por hombre! | p. 190 |
| Apollo help you, as you're a man! | p. 191 |
| Romance decasilabo / Ballad in Variant Meter | |
| Lamina sirva el Cielo al retrato | p. 202 |
| Heavenly should be the canvas to bear the portrait | p. 203 |
| Selected Bibliographies | |
| Bibliography to the Second Edition | p. 207 |
| Bibliography to the First Edition | p. 213 |
| Appendix | |
| Carta de Sor Filotea de la Cruz | p. 222 |
| Letter from Sor Filotea de la Cruz | p. 223 |
| Index | p. 232 |
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