McKnight, Kathryn Joy,  1961- <br/><br/>
The Mystic of Tunja :  the writings of Madre Castillo, 1671-1742 / 
Kathryn Joy McKnight. 
 - Amherst, Mass. :  University of Massachusetts Press,  �1997. 
 - 1 online resource (xviii, 284 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index. 
<br/><br/> Interested readings --  The genre of the Vida Espiritual --  Religious women's writing in Spain and Spanish America --  Female monasticism: a life unbecoming? --  Madre Castillo in the institution: an ascension to power --  Su vida: spiritual trials and worldly troubles --  Su vida: holy archetypes --  The Afectos espirituales: mysticism of the incarnate word --  The Cuaderno de Enciso: a theology of humiliation and its mystic rewards. 
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<br/><br/> During the fifty-three years she lived in a convent in the city of Tunja in what is now Colombia, author Madre Castillo stretched the accepted boundaries of female behavior by veiling her intellectual activities in the duties of a colonial nun. Her autobiographical writings reveal a deeply conflicted individual whose keen mind chafed against the restrictions of Counter-Reformation ideology.  In this volume, Kathryn Joy McKnight offers an insightful analysis of Madre Castillo's life and writings. McKnight draws on feminist and post-structural criticism, recent scholarship on nuns' writings, and extensive research in colonial archives to develop a framework for understanding Madre Castillo's life and the genre of the spiritual autobiography, so often required of mystic nuns by their confessors. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585142122 9780585142128 1122054726 9781122054720 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96040881  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Castillo, Francisca Josefa de la Concepci�on de, 1671-1742 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Castillo, Francisca Josefa de la Concepci�on de, 1671-1742. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nuns' writings, Colombian--History and criticism.<br/>POETRY--Continental European.<br/>Nuns' writings, Colombian.<br/>Spanish Literature.<br/>Romance Literatures.<br/>Languages & Literatures.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Colombia.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ8179.C369  / Z77 1997eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>861