Fashioning a Cacique Nun: From Saints’ Lives to Indian Lives in the Spanish Americas

Autor: Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Gender & History. 9:171-200
ISSN: 1468-0424
0953-5233
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.00054
Popis: New Spain was a land of opportunity for the missionary as well as the conquistador. The controversial proposal to found a convent for women of the indigenous elite illuminates the redefinition of notions of gender and race. Examining testimonies on this question written by priests, this article charts how they transform material that would normally have been presented as hagiography into narratives of a more general nature, and argues that this rhetorical shift contributed to a kind of writing on the Indies which not only shared the comparative and epistemological stakes of ethnography but also considered issues of gender.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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