O discurso epistolar nas cartas de Sóror Juana Inés de La Cruz

Abstract

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico, 1648-1695) is one of the biggest names in poetry and prose Hispanic Baroque. The nun not only drew their space in a literate elite belonging to men in seventeenth-century New Spain, but also in the midst of this patriarchal society and the production closed intellectual woman, seized the masculine forms of culture, using theology as a weapon policy, and skillfully using the concepts scholastics, subtlety, irony and abstraction. Among his most significant works are the letters and Atenagórica Respuesta the Filotea Sor de la Cruz, which form the corpus of this study. The production of these letters mark the most turbulent period of the writer's life, showing both the position they occupied in Sor Juana society of his time, as to how political disputes were masked in controversy being philosophical or theological.