Untold Sisters

Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works

By: Electa Arenal (Editor), Stacey Schlau (Editor), Amanda Powell (Translator)

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Paperback | 14 February 2010 | Edition Number 2

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When it appeared in 1989, "Untold Sisters" was the first general introduction to Hispanic convent culture published in the United States. Since then, much has been learned about the links among women of differing cultures, orders, and convents, their networks and support systems, their conflicts and rivalries.
Most nun-authors lived in convents and were subject to multiple mechanisms of control. They found ways to negotiate, however, the repressive machinery of ecclesiastic and state institutions. "Untold Sisters" underscores how role models such at St. Teresa of Avila aided nun-authors in intertwining their personal beliefs with dogma, regardless of their social situations. At the same time that they wanted proximity to God, they sought to authorize speech, both oral and written.
Historical changes and geographical distance alter the meanings of written words. The language used by the nuns was common to the writers' regions, generations, and even their particular religious orders. Without this knowledge, it is easy to mistake words or modes of expression--quite common or particular in meaning to an entire community, city, or epoch--as unusual or original.
As in the first edition, the authors first study and then anthologize some representative nuns' writings, which are presented in modernized Spanish and English. Revealed here are the contradictions of female monastic life: repression and liberation, obedience and rebellion, conformity and individuality.

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Illustrations	p. vii
Preface to the Revised Edition	p. ix
Preface to the First Edition	p. xiii
A Note on the Translations	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction: Reclaiming the Mother Tongue: History and Spiritual Politics	p. 1
Women in Christian Monasticism	p. 2
The Hispanic Religious Context	p. 6
Saint Teresa and the Visionary Model	p. 8
Sexuality, Language, and Power	p. 11
Nuns' Writing and Writing Nuns	p. 13
More Than One Teresa: A Movement of Religious Women	p. 19
Ana de San Bartolomé: The Making of a Carmelite Oral History-I	p. 21
María de San José: Dialogue of a Carmelite-I	p. 27
Ana de San Bartolomé: The Making of a Carmelite Oral History-II	p. 30
María de San José: Dialogue of a Carmelite-II	p. 36
Recreations/Re-Creation: Libro de recreaciones (1585)	p. 37
"Carta de una pobre y presa descalza" (Letter from a poor, imprisoned Discalced nun) (1593)	p. 42
"Instrucción de novicias" (Instruction of Novices) (1602)	p. 44
Poetry	p. 44
Texts and Translations	p. 46
Two Sisters Among the Sisters: The Flowering of Intellectual Convent Culture	p. 129
Maternal Models	p. 135
Cecilia del Nacimiento, Poet	p. 141
María de San Alberto, Poet	p. 144
Theater in the Convent	p. 146
Texts and Translations	p. 150
The Poor Pray More: A Peasant Nun (Isabel de Jesús)	p. 187
From Lowliest to Highest	p. 187
Writing as Speaking, Speaking as Writing	p. 190
Structure, Style, and Sources	p. 191
The World Turned Inside Out: From Shepherdess to Mystic	p. 195
Texts and Translations	p. 203
Convent In/Verse: A Dramatist of Female Religious Life (Marcela de San Félix)	p. 225
From Illegitimacy to Self-Legitimation	p. 226
Sexual Politics and Humor: Censorship and Self-Censorship	p. 232
The Aesthetic of Asceticism: Theater, Biography, Poetry	p. 238
Texts and Translations	p. 247
Spiritual Housekeepers of the Spanish Empire: The Apóstolas of Peru (Antonia Lucía del Espíritu Santo and Josefa de la Providencia)	p. 291
Class, Race, and Sexual Politics	p. 294
Imitatio	p. 300
A Patchwork Text	p. 306
The Use of the First Person	p. 308
A Saint in the Making	p. 310
Text and Translation	p. 313
New Spain: Arche/Types, Archi/Texts	p. 333
Mariana de la Encarnación (1571-1657)	p. 339
Text and Translation	p. 342
Venerable Madre María Magdalena Lorravaquio Muñoz (1576-1636)	p. 352
Text and Translation	p. 355
María de San José (1656-1719)	p. 359
Texts and Translations	p. 362
María Anna Agueda de San Ignacio (1695-1756)	p. 370
Texts and Translations	p. 372
Indian Princesses, Catholic Nuns	p. 380
Texts and Translations	p. 386
Madre María Marcela (?-?)	p. 393
Texts and Translation	p. 396
Notes	p. 401
Bibliography	p. 431
Index	p. 447
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