Description
Book SynopsisTakes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-95).
Hearing Voices highlights the importance of sound and - in most cases - its relationship with gender in Sor Juana's work and early modern culture.
Trade Review"Sarah Finley’s
Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz makes a noteworthy contribution to our understanding of the various ways in which sound is manifest in the works of Mexico’s celebrated seventeenth-century nun poet, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz."—Colleen R. Baade,
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature"
Hearing Voices stands as a solid piece of scholarship that achieves its broad and straightforward exploration of establishing new paradigms for listening to Sor Juana’s oeuvre that exceed textual and linguistic limits."—Nicholas R. Jones,
Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies“A much-needed and valuable contribution to the field of Sor Juana studies. The book’s focus on Sor Juana’s ‘engagement with non-musical sound’ significantly complements existing scholarship on musical sound, whether from a musicological or literary perspective. The broad approach to aurality and sound that the author undertakes—from harmony to resonance, sound, echo, and silence—will make it an indispensable study on the subject.”—Mario Ortiz, associate professor of Spanish at the Catholic University of America
“Sarah Finley brings a unique combination of expertise in early modern musicology and current sound studies to illuminate a web of connections among aesthetic, philosophical, scientific, gendered, and political contexts. This book will interest scholars in early modern European and Hispanic colonial literary studies and musicology and in gender and women’s studies.”—Emilie Bergmann, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of
Approaches to Teaching Sor Juana Ines de la CruzTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Prelude
1. Harmony: Order and Authority in Occasional Poems
2. Resonance: Intersections of Music and Other Arts
3. Sound: Female Auralities in the Villancicos
4. Echo: Repercussions of Feminine Intellect
5. Silence: Transgressions and Feminine Revoicings
6. Coda: Re-sounding Voices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
