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2 - Mulieres Litterarum

Oral, Visual, and Written Narratives of Indigenous Elite Women

from Part I - Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

By
Rocío Quispe-Agnoli
Edited by
Ileana Rodríguez  and
Mónica Szurmuk
Ileana Rodríguez
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Mónica Szurmuk
Affiliation:
Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Argentina
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Summary

This chapter discusses examples of the textual production of women such as Dona Ines and Dona Maria Joaquina to showcase the relationship established between women of the Inca elite and the lettered culture of their time. It focuses on the production of legal documents in which they were actively involved. The chapter provides examples of native women in colonial Peru who presented themselves as legitimate members of Inca nobility and established a close relationship with the lettered culture of their time. The legal writings by women of the native elites of Latin America constitute examples of female subjectivity that manifest themselves as "arts of the contact zone" and "autoethnographic texts". Women's relation to the written word in colonial Spanish America started at a crossroads of rhetorical practices and textual devices that included the knowledge and transmission of oral traditions, visual narratives, tangible systems of record keeping, and the incorporation of the alphabetic script.
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The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 38 - 51
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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