Quill and Cross in the Borderlands

Auteur

Anna M. Nogar is professor of Hispanic Southwest studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and associate dean of humanities at the University of New Mexico.

Texte du rabat

Quill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art surrounding the legendary Lady in Blue and her historical counterpart, Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction: A Literary Protomissionary in the Borderlands

1. Seventeenth-Century Spiritual Travel to New Mexico: A Miracle Narrative in Text

2. Sor María's Rise as Mystical Writer and Protomissionary in Early Modern Spain

3. "Como si fuera natural de México": Publication, Reading, and Interpretation of Sor María's Writing in Colonial Mexico

4. "Aquella voz de las conversiones": Writer and Missionary on the New Spanish Frontier

5. Blue Lady of Lore: The Lady in Blue Narrative and Sor María in the Folklore of the American Southwest

6. Sor María and the Lady in Blue in Contemporary Cultural Imagination

Conclusion: Quill and Cross In New Spain

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