Quill and Cross in the Borderlands

Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction: A Literary Protomissionary in the Borderlands


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


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


3. "Como si fuera natural de Mexico": Publication, Reading, and Interpretation of Sor Maria'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 Maria in the Folklore of the American Southwest


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


Conclusion: Quill and Cross In New Spain


Notes


Bibliography


Index

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• História da religião
• Cristianismo
• Assuntos religiosos representados em arte
• Literatura: história e crítica
• Catolicismo romano, igreja católica romana

Latin American Catholicism; folklore; New Spain; Mexican-American culture; colonialism; borderland literature; Marian works; Indo-Hispano populations; how do real people become legends; forgotten women writers; early modern women writers; women in the early Catholic church