Colonial Angels : : Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750 / / Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela.
Spain's attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Moving Stories: New Spanish Hagiographies and Their Relation to Travel Narrative
- Chapter 2. Chronicles of a Colonial Cloister: The Convent of San Jose and the Mexican Carmelites
- Chapter 3. From the Confessional to the Altar: Epistolary and Hagiographic Forms
- Chapter 4. The Exemplary Cloister on Trial: San Jose in the Inquisition
- Chapter 5. Cacique Nuns: From Saints' Lives to Indian Lives
- Afterword
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index