Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Mirror of Enigmas

  • Dardo Scavino Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2014-1813

Keywords:

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, colonial literature, cultural history, XVII Century, New Spain

Abstract

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz uses the tradition of typological interpretation of the Bible, which dates back to St. Paul and St. Augustine, to interpret the ancient pagan authors and the Aztecs cults like obscure or enigmatic allegories of the Christianity. This appropriation of pre-Cristian texts and mythology is not linked to the alleged liberal pluralism of the Creoles, as Octavio Paz raised, nor a supposed cultural mix, as Gruzinski arise. Far from an openness to cultural otherness, his gesture is rather an absorption in the Christian sameness.

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Author Biography

Dardo Scavino, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

(Buenos Aires, 1964) es profesor de literatura y cultura latinoamericanas de la Universidad de Pau (Francia). Entre sus obras, se encuentran Barcos sobre la pampa. Las formas de la guerra en Sarmiento (1993), La filosofía actual (1999), Saer y los nombres (2004), El señor, el amante y el poeta (2009), Narraciones de la independencia (2010) y Rebeldes y confabulados (2012). 

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Published

2014-05-30

How to Cite

Scavino, D. (2014). Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Mirror of Enigmas. Anclajes , 18(1), 27–45. https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2014-1813

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2014): enero-junio

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