TY - BOOK AU - Sampson Vera Tudela,Elisa TI - Colonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750 SN - 9780292745193 U1 - 868.08 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - Literature and society KW - Mexico KW - Mexican prose literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - To 1800 KW - Nuns' writings, Mexican - KW - Nuns' writings, Mexican KW - Sex role KW - Political aspects KW - Women and literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1. Moving Stories: New Spanish Hagiographies and Their Relation to Travel Narrative --; Chapter 2. Chronicles of a Colonial Cloister: The Convent of San Jose and the Mexican Carmelites --; Chapter 3. From the Confessional to the Altar: Epistolary and Hagiographic Forms --; Chapter 4. The Exemplary Cloister on Trial: San Jose in the Inquisition --; Chapter 5. Cacique Nuns: From Saints' Lives to Indian Lives --; Afterword --; Appendix 1 --; Appendix 2 --; Appendix 3 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Spain's attempt to establish a "New Spain" in Mexico never fully succeeded, for Spanish institutions and cultural practices inevitably mutated as they came in contact with indigenous American outlooks and ways of life. This original, interdisciplinary book explores how writing by and about colonial religious women participated in this transformation, as it illuminates the role that gender played in imposing the Spanish empire in Mexico. The author argues that the New World context necessitated the creation of a new kind of writing. Drawing on previously unpublished writings by and about nuns in the convents of Mexico City, she investigates such topics as the relationship between hagiography and travel narratives, male visions of the feminine that emerge from the reworking of a nun's letters to her confessor into a hagiography, the discourse surrounding a convent's trial for heresy by the Inquisition, and the reports of Spanish priests who ministered to noble Indian women. This research rounds out colonial Mexican history by revealing how tensions between Spain and its colonies played out in the local, daily lives of women UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/777477 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292745193 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292745193/original ER -