Indeed, she is considered the last great author of Spain’s Golden Age (Siglo de Oro), during which an extraordinary number of outstanding writers and artists were active.² The emergent, differentiated, and multicultural New Spain-Mexico’s telling name during the colonial period-was fertile soil for Sor Juana’s imagination. ¹ Her poetry, plays, and prose move within and reshape the themes and styles of Renaissance and Baroque Spain and its far-flung empire. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, author of the Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz (as the Answer is titled in Spanish), is a major figure of Hispanic literature, but still little known to readers of other languages.
Juana Ramírez / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1648/51–1695): A Life Without and Within It includes the fully annotated primary text responding to the church officials the letter that ultimately provoked the writing of The Answer an expanded selection of poems an updated bibliography and a new preface. This expanded, bilingual edition combines new research and perspectives on an inspired writer and thinker. While earlier translators have ignored Sor Juana's keen awareness of gender, this volume brings out her own emphasis and diction, and reveals the remarkable scholarship, subversiveness, and even humor she drew on in defense of her cause.
The Answer/La Respuesta (1691) is is Sor Juana's impassioned response to years of attempts by church officials to silence her.
Known as the first feminist of the Americas, the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz enjoyed an international reputation as one of the great lyric poets and dramatists of her time. Defiant writing by the first feminist of the Americas-the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz-in response to the church officials that tried to silence her.
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