El Sueno : Cartographies of Knowledge and the Self

Nanfito (Spanish and comparative literature, Case Western Reserve U.) presents a reading of Sor Juana's 17th-century poem, which is considered one of the inaugural voices of a Latin American feminist literary tradition. She focuses on the poetic conception of space, arguing that it is through the exploration and exploitation of space within the text that the poet is able to construct a verbal labyrinth that genuinely reflects the intricacies and ambiguities of her world. Readers must know Spanish.