Book contents
- A History of Chilean Literature
- A History of Chilean Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
- Chapter 1 The Evolving Image of the Araucanía and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia’s Cartas de Relación and Vivar’s Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile
- Chapter 2 Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado in the National Imaginary
- Chapter 3 Writing while Walking: Alonso Ovalle and the Construction of the World’s End Narrative in An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile (1646)
- Chapter 4 Empathy with the Mapuche
- Chapter 5 Subalterns Find Their Voice
- Part II Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness
- Part III Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
- Index
- References
Chapter 5 - Subalterns Find Their Voice
Testimonies by Black and Indigenous Women and Writings by Nuns during the Colonial Period
from Part I - Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2021
- A History of Chilean Literature
- A History of Chilean Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
- Chapter 1 The Evolving Image of the Araucanía and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia’s Cartas de Relación and Vivar’s Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile
- Chapter 2 Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado in the National Imaginary
- Chapter 3 Writing while Walking: Alonso Ovalle and the Construction of the World’s End Narrative in An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile (1646)
- Chapter 4 Empathy with the Mapuche
- Chapter 5 Subalterns Find Their Voice
- Part II Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness
- Part III Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
- Index
- References
Summary
Research in colonial and convent archives reveals that women wrote much more than has been acknowledged to date. Within these writings, a first distinction can be made: firsthand accounts by women (letters, cloister writings) and texts written for women by others. The latter include legal claims and wills that, while written by others and following the typical regulations of the discourse to which they belong, offer accounts, and contribute to our knowledge, of these women’s reality.
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- A History of Chilean Literature , pp. 96 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021