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With their emphasis on freedom and engagement, European existentialisms offered Latin Americans transformative frameworks for thinking and writing about their own locales. In taking up these frameworks, Latin Americans endowed them with a distinctive ethos, a turn towards questions of identity and ethics. Stephanie Merrim situates major literary and philosophical works-by the existentialist Grupo Hiperión, Rosario Castellanos, Octavio Paz, Jos...

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment, " Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz fills a gap in the scholarship on Sor Juana by exploring the implications of her feminist staus in literary and cultural terms. Editor Stephanie Merrim's introduction surveys key issues in Sor Juana crit...

Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz maps the field of seventeenth-century women's writing in Spanish, English, and French and situates the work of Sor Juana more clearly within that field. Stephanie Merrim's study provides a full-bodied picture of the resources that the seventeenth century placed at the disposal of women writers, the manners in which women writers instrumentalized them, the building blocks and concerns o...

Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz maps the field of seventeenth-century women's writing in Spanish, English, and French and situates the work of Sor Juana more clearly within that field. Stephanie Merrim's study provides a full-bodied picture of the resources that the seventeenth century placed at the disposal of women writers, the manners in which women writers instrumentalized them, the building blocks and concerns o...

Stephanie Merrim offers a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to colonial Hispanic writing based on the spectacular city, a model that encompasses three driving forces of New World literary culture: cities, festivals & wonder.