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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820211003321

Titolo

Untold sisters [[electronic resource] ] : Hispanic nuns in their own works / / edited by Electa Arenal and Stacey Schlau ; translations by Amanda Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-63718-9

0-8263-5118-2

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ArenalElecta

SchlauStacey <1948->

PowellAmanda

Disciplina

271/.90008968

Soggetti

Nuns - Spain

Nuns - Latin America

Monastic and religious life of women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; A Note on the Translations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reclaiming the Mother Tongue: History and Spiritual Politics; 1: More Than One Teresa: A Movement of Religious Women; 2: Two Sisters Among the Sisters: The Flowering of Intellectual Convent Culture; 3: The Poor Pray More: A Peasant Nun (Isabel de Jesús); 4: Convent In/Verse: A Dramatist of Female Religious Life (Marcela de San Félix)

5: Spiritual Housekeepers of the Spanish Empire: The Apóstolas of Peru (Antonia Lucía del Espíritu Santo and Josefa de la Providencia)6: New Spain: Arche/Types, Archi/Texts; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

In this revised edition of the first introduction to Hispanic convent culture published in the United States, the authors present the works of nuns going back to the sixteenth century.