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- Title
Unequal Words: Sor Juana and the Poetics of Money in New Spain.
- Authors
Sokol, Alina
- Abstract
This article provides information on baroque poetry and criticizes the poem of gratitude written by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for the church council of Mexico. The poem was in response to the big pay she received from the council for designing one of the two ceremonial arches with which the colonies celebrated the arrival from Spain of the new viceroy, the count of Paredes, marquis of Laguna. In the poem, Sor Juana admits that the money stops her muse as she thanks her benefactors and apologizes for the shortcomings of her writing caused by money.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); JUANA Ines de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695; COUNCILS &; synods; BAROQUE arts; WOMEN poets; SOCIAL conditions in Mexico; MEXICAN history to 1810; REVOLUTIONARY (Literary period); 19TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Early American Literature, 2006, Vol 41, Issue 3, p455
- ISSN
0012-8163
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/eal.2006.0043