Papers by valerie benoist
Una ruptura de la "Tiranía del alfabeto" en la Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca
Revista De Estudios Hispanicos, 2002
GRISO (Grupo de Investigación Siglo de Oro Universidad de Navarra) eBooks, 2015
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Estudios de cultura Náhuatl, 2003
En comparación con las obras de historiadores nahuas y mestizos como Ixtlilxóchitl y Tezozómoc, l... more En comparación con las obras de historiadores nahuas y mestizos como Ixtlilxóchitl y Tezozómoc, las Relaciones (1600-1620) de Francisco de San Antón Chimalpahin Cuauht1ehuanitzin han sido poco estudiadas, quizás porque su historia está principalmente escrita en náhuatl, y tam bién porque, para acceder a una traducción entera de la obra, hay que recurrir a las traducciones parciales del manuscrito al alemán, español y francés. 1 Como resultado de esta situación lingüística, las Relaciones se incluyen frecuentemente como parte de estudios sobre las obras de otros historiadores indígenas y mestizos de México que sí escribieron en español, pero rara vez son el enfoque de un análisis individual. 2 1 Como muchos textos indígenas coloniales, el manuscrito de las Relaciones tuvo una his toria complicada. A la muene de Chimalpahin, la obra pasó a manos de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700), gran admirador de la historia mexicana y profesor de matemáticas en la Universidad de México. A su muerte Sigiienza y Góngora legó el manuscrito a la biblioteca del
La treta de la ambigüedad en la loa para el auto "El divino Narciso" de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Letras femeninas, 2003
La perpetuación de la problemática racial con el uso del romance interracial como intertexto metafórico entre la novela <i>Sab</i> y la telenovela <i>La esclava blanca</i>
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Jun 1, 2022
La doble traducción en la "Ynstrucion" de Titu Cusi Yupanqui
Revista De Estudios Hispanicos, 2007
Estefania De San Joseph and Esperanza De San Alberto
El "Blanqueamiento" De Dos Escogidas Negras De Dios: Sor Esperanza la Negra, De Puebla Y Sor Teresa la Negrita, De Salamanca
Afro-Hispanic Review, Oct 1, 2014
Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World
in 1650 the Franciscan Diego de Córdoba y Salinas made the unconventional decision to include the... more in 1650 the Franciscan Diego de Córdoba y Salinas made the unconventional decision to include the spiritual bio graphy of an AfroFranciscan beata named Estefania de San Joseph into his chronicle about the Franciscans of colonial Peru. 1 A few decades later, in 1703, José Gómez de la Parra, a prominent theo logian from Puebla in colonial Mexico made a similar choice when incorporating the spiritual life of an AfroMexican nun known as Esperanza de San Alberto into the chronicle of the San José convent. Very few Afrowomen professed in colonial SpanishAmerica during the Early Modern period. Indeed, in the IberoAtlantic world, people generally associated Afroindividuals with the Devil and they thought that women of African ancestry lacked the necessary moral attributes to undertake a religious vocation. So it is surprising that Estefania and Esperanza became known for their Catholic exemplarity and even more intriguing that highly respected clergy members chose them as the subjects of religious bio graphies since such portrayals were usually reserved for saintly figures such as Teresa of Avila and Rosa of Lima. 2 Until now, few scholars have examined the rare discourse about exemplary Afro Catholic women in the early modern IberoAtlantic world. 3 Alice Wood, who has studied 1 A beata was a lay pious woman who took informal religious vows: Van Deusen, The Souls of Purgatory, 194. 2 St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) was a prominent Spanish Carmelite who, together with John of the Cross, is considered the founder of the Discalced Carmelites. She was canonized in 1622. For more information on her works and life, please consult Slade, "St. Teresa of Avila as a Social Reformer." St. Rose of Lima (1586-1617) was a lay member of the Dominican Order and the first person born in the Americas to be canonized. She was canonized in 1671. To learn more about her, see Graziano, "Santa Rosa de Lima" and Weber, Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity. 3 There were only a handful of Afroreligious women whose spiritual lives were recorded in the Valérie Benoist is a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa where she teaches for the Spanish Department as well as for the Latin American Studies Concentration. Her research focuses on the representation of racial and gender identities in colonial Latin American literature. She has published on nuns' writing as well as historio graphies written by indigenous peoples. Her most recent publications have been on the representation of blackness in colonial literature. She is currently examining the discourse about religious exemplarity and sanctity in the bio graphies about early modern AfroSpanish and Latin American nuns.
La perpetuación de la problemática racial con el uso del romance interracial como intertexto metafórico entre la novela Sab y la telenovela La esclava blanca
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
Estefania De San Joseph and Esperanza De San Alberto
Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World
El "Blanqueamiento" De Dos Escogidas Negras De Dios: Sor Esperanza la Negra, De Puebla Y Sor Teresa la Negrita, De Salamanca
Afro-Hispanic Review, 2014
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This article analyzes the hidden “imagined community” that colonial Afro-Peruvian sister Ursula d... more This article analyzes the hidden “imagined community” that colonial Afro-Peruvian sister Ursula de Jesus proposed in her spiritual journal as well as the modern day digital communities she has inspired in contemporary Peru. More specifically, the study demonstrates that, more than four centuries after sister Ursula lived and dictated her vida, some digital writers have appropriated her text to foster religious imagined communities as well as digital communities where Afro-Peruvians can be proud of their heritage and reinforce their sense of equality within current Peruvian society. Keywords: sister Ursula de Jesus; colonial writing; vida; appropriation; imagined communities; blackness; Afro-Peruvian; subalternity;; economy of salvation.
PALARA, 2019
The article examines the diary of Peruvian sister Ursula de Jesús, the first known spiritual jour... more The article examines the diary of Peruvian sister Ursula de Jesús, the first known spiritual journal produced by a black woman in colonial Spanish America. The account, written in first person and consisting of fifty-seven folios, mainly describes sister Ursula's visions and her life inside the Lima convent where she came to be highly revered as a mystic during the seventeenth century. The recognition that this black woman gained was particularly high considering that she lived at a time when most people in the Ibero-transatlantic world associated Afro descendants with the Devil. This fact along with the richness of sister Ursula's spiritual diary has resulted in some merited scholarly attention identifying her work as part of the emergence of a discourse on black religious exemplarity in Lima in the sixteen hundreds. The examination adds to this scholarship by presenting how sister Ursula carefully crafted her vida as a discursive space to argue for a more equal access to the economy of salvation and more solidarity between black catholic women such as herself. The theoretical tools that help guide the analysis are the concepts of economy of salvation, the link between an individual's mystical experience and their dialectical relation to society, and the mediation in textual agency found in spiritual diaries. fall 2019 • Issue 23 PublIcatIon of the afro-latIn/amerIcan research assocIatIon (Palara)
Revista De Estudios Hispanicos, 2007
Manco a un argumento a favor del auto-gobierno inca a troves de Ia apropiaci6n del discurso y las... more Manco a un argumento a favor del auto-gobierno inca a troves de Ia apropiaci6n del discurso y las ideas de
La treta de la ambig�edad en la loa para el auto "El divino Narciso" de Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz
Una ruptura de la "tiranía del alfabeto" en la Historia tolteca-chichimeca
Revista De Estudios Hispanicos, 2002
Latin American Theatre Review, Sep 1, 1999
La treta de la ambigüedad en la loa para el auto \El divino Narciso\ de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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