By Kathryn Joy Mcknight
Through the fifty-three years she lived in a convent within the urban of Tunja in what's now Colombia, writer Madre Castillo stretched the authorized obstacles of girl habit through veiling her highbrow actions within the tasks of a colonial nun. Her autobiographical writings exhibit a deeply conflicted person whose willing brain chafed opposed to the constraints of Counter-Reformation ideology.
In this quantity, Kathryn pleasure McKnight bargains an insightful research of Madre Castillo's lifestyles and writings. She situates those writings inside a practice of woman autobiography during which nuns negotiated the ability to symbolize themselves by means of inscribing into their tales bleeding our bodies, demonic temptations, and celestial visions.
McKnight attracts on feminist and post-structural feedback, fresh scholarship on nuns' writings, and broad study in colonial files to strengthen a framework for realizing Madre Castillo's lifestyles and the style of the non secular autobiography, so usually required of mystic nuns via their confessors.
Madre Castillo's released works, Su vida and the Afectos espirituals, current a desirable distinction in self-portraits. Proclaiming herself the heart of convent scandal, the three-time abbess wrote an autobiographical story marked by means of discord and self-degradation whereas, with better self belief, her journal-like Afectos enters the area of scriptural remark the place few lady contemporaries dared to tread.
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The twentieth-century critic perceives a third figure, that of the self-reflective narrator who holds sufficient distance from each protagonist to judge the first and celebrate the second. From this contemporary view, it would seem that a reading of the autobiographical text as "confession" or "truth" could only become bogged down in a mire of confusion while subjectivities of mystic Page 2 and worldly being, saint and sinner, pained and jubilant narrator execute a complicated dance. Yet the history of criticism that has addressed Madre Castillo's writings draws heavily on transparent readings of her text as truth and understands only isolated elements as rhetorical constructs.
With an interdisciplinary methodology, Arenal and Schlau build the historical, ideological, and discursive contexts in which these women of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries wrote. They relate routines of daily life, Church economics and politics, confessor/nun relationships, and female community to the types of texts written, the language used, and the strategies that created expressive freedom and subtle subversion. In short, Arenal and Schlau identify a wide range of elements present in the situations in which nuns wrote and to which they responded, treating above all issues of gender, race, and social hierarchy.
In responding to Carrasquilla's speech, Marroquín reiterates the latter's glorification of Spain and his preference for the early Golden Age over the Baroque. His reading resolves the apparent anachronism of Madre Castillo's clear prose, written during the time of the Barroco de Indias, by crediting her with great intellectual autonomy, that vision of the subject inherited from the Enlightenment. For Marroquín, Madre Castillo transcended the style of her times by designing a curriculum of divine inspiration and private scriptural studies for herself.