Marie Hause, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Sarah Thomas dive into some of the villancicos of famed early modern Mexican writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Topics include Marian villancicos, polyvocality, and proto-feminism.
Knowing
Background on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Background on villancicos in general
Description of the villancicos focused on here: villancicos 221/42 “That shepherd lass”, 224/43 “The joyous Mexicans”, 258/44 “At the sacristan’s voice”, and 322/52 “I’ve a strange thing to sing you” in Alan S. Trueblood, trans., A Sor Juana Anthology
Reading
The treatment of Mary in these villancicos
Polyvocality in the villancicos
St. Catherine in 322/52 “I’ve a strange thing to sing you” in relation to Sor Juana’s pro-woman messages
Passing On
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary, by Brant Pitre; Catechism in a Year podcast w/ Fr. Mike Schmitz
Sor Juana’s villancico 281/47 “Black is the Bride” in Alan S. Trueblood, trans., A Sor Juana Anthology and Sor Juana’s Primero sueño in Margaret Sayers Peden, trans., Poems, Protest, and a Dream
Image | Attributed to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Villancicos, que se cantaron en la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico. En los maitines de la Purissima Concepcion de Nuestra Señora… (En Mexico : Por la Viuda de Bernardo Calderon, en la calle de San Augustin, 1676). ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 / Archive.org digitized. Image shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license via Archive.org.