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Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction

I. Sor Juana’s Life and Work

Juana Ramírez / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51–1695): A Life Without and Within

A Poet-Scholar: Sor Juana’s Writing

II. La Respuesta / The Answer: A Reading

Sor Juana’s Art and Argument

The Issues at Stake

A Different Worldview, a Different Law: A Woman-Centered Vision

A Note on the Texts

Respuesta de la poetisa a la muy ilustre sor Filotea de la Cruz

The Poet’s Answer to the Most Illustrious Sister Filotea de la Cruz

Annotations to La Respuesta / The Answer

Selected Poems

Introduction

Romance: Prólogo al lector / Ballad: Prologue to the Reader of these Poems

Sonetos / Sonnets

Este, que ves, engaño colorido

This object which you see

Si los riesgos del mar considerara

With all the hazards of the sea in mind

Esta tarde, mi bien, cuando te hablaba

This afternoon, my darling, when we spoke

Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo

Don’t leave me, shadow of elusive love

¿Qué es esto, Alcino?

What’s this, Alcino?

Mandas, Anarda, que sin llanto asista

Anarda, you command me to observe

Sátira filosófica / Philosophical Satire

Hombres necios que acusáis

You foolish and unreasoning men

Villancicos / Carols For the Feast of the Assumption, 1676

Vengan a ver una apuesta

They’re betting, so hurry for all that you’re worth

La soberana Doctora

She is a sovereign Doctor

Aquella Zagala

That shepherd lass

For the Feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1691

De una mujer se convencen

The learned men of Egypt

Rosa es, cuyo casto velo

She is a Rose, and when she flowered

Erase una Niña

Once upon a time this Girl

Romance epistolar / Epistolary Ballad

¡Válgate Apolo por hombre!

Apollo help you, as you’re a man!

Romance decasílabo / Ballad in Variant Meter

Lámina sirva el Cielo al retrato

Heavenly should be the canvas to bear the portrait

Selected Bibliographies

Bibliography to the Second Edition

Bibliography to the First Edition

Appendix

Carta de Sor Filotea de la Cruz

Letter from Sor Filotea de la Cruz

Index