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Meet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The Mexican Poet Who Gave Up Her Freedom to Be a Writer
Outside of Mexico, the name Juana Inés de la Cruz may not ring any bells. But Sor Juana is arguably one of Mexico’s most famous writers, and she is a literary ancestor whose commitment to her craft stands as a reminder of what’s possible. A precocious child, born with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, Juana forsake the comforts and freedom of a secular life, so she could dedicate herself to writing and learning. Now, that’s dedication. But was her sacrifice worth it?
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Juana Inés Loved Learning
Juana Inés de la Cruz was born November 12, 1651 (or it might have been 1648) in San Miguel Nepantla. Reports differ about her actual birth year because historical records about women were never that prized. San Miguel Nepantla was a small town outside of Mexico city at the time. Juana’s father was a Spanish man of means, her mother was creole, which meant she was of Spanish heritage, but born in New Spain, which is what Mexico was known as at this time in history.
From a very early age, Juana showed an aptitude
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Biography
1648 - 1695
"I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.”
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Early feminist Sor Juana was a 17th century poet, nun and scholar. With a remarkable aptitude for everything from Latin to geometry, she took her novitiate at the age of 16. As a nun she was free to study the more than 4000 books she collected in her cell – one of the largest private libraries in the New World. Her poetry and plays were widely read and brought her renown in Europe and Spanish America for celebrating the “magicas infusions (magical infusions)” of Native American cultures – all of which earned her a reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets of the Age. In her work as in her life, she acknowledged being “en dos partes dividida (divided in two parts),” torn between passion and reason, sensuality and religious devotion. Contemporaries gossiped about her liaisons with other nuns (and the wife of the viceroy of the Court of Mexico City), but it was her audaciously brilliant verse, and the threat to traditional authority it posed, that proved her undoing. In her most famous work Reply to Sor Filotea she defended the intellectual rights of women and condemned the Church for helping keep women uneducated. As a result of challenging societal
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