There is a text, the respuesta a s or filotea, to be considered in isolation. In the autobiographical section of the document, sor juana traces the many obstacles that her powerful inclination to letters had forced her to surmount. In response to the incident, sor juana penned respuesta a sor filotea response to sister filotea, which many scholars consider the first feminist manifesto. In it, sor juana defends her right to intellectual freedom as a woman and as a nun. It is important here to establish credibility ethos with the audience. Margaret sayers peden middlebush professor of romance languages, university of missouri, columbia. Known as the first feminist of the americas, sor juana was a brilliant scholar and poet and an outspoken defender of womens rights. One sets forth the subject and purpose of the discourse. Sor juanas rhetoric of silence cultural rhetorics consortium. I hope this naive reading will teach us something about irony and also lead us to the heart of sor juana s thought. Pdf click to increase image size click to decrease image size. As many of you may already know, the reply to sor filotea was written on march 1691 as a response to a critique of the bishop of puebla included along with the publication of sor juana s carta. It includes the fully annotated primary text, the answerla respuesta 1691, which is sor juana s impassioned response to years of attempts by church officials to silence her, the letter that ultimately provoked the writing of the answer, an expanded selection of poems.
No mi voluntad, mi poca salud y mi justo temor han suspendido tantos dias mi respuesta. In it, she defended, among other rights, a womans right to education. Quiros 3 i began to study latin grammar, and i believe i had no. Antonio palau, en su manual del librero, registra otra edicion, en. Selected writings by pamela kirk rappaport and the tenth muse. Her impassioned response became the subject of even further criticism. In the autobiographical section of the document, sor juana traces the.
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