Jesus,Ursula de (Author) and Nancy E. Van Deusen (Translator)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
221 p, Contents: The world of Ursula de Jesús -- Ursula's life story : portraits and portrayals -- A walk through Lima -- Ursula's early childhood -- A niche of female mysticism -- Life in the convent of Santa Clara -- "In the grave I may speak through stones" : purgatory and popular perceptions of the beyond -- "Apostles of the dead": medieval female intercession -- Early modern European and Latin American visionaries -- Ambassadresses to the beyond in seventeenth-century Lima -- The singularities of Ursula de Jesús -- The text -- Translation of Ursula's Diary -- Selections from Ursula's Diary
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
89 p, "Anthropological iconoclasts Richard and Sally Price have spent the last two decades not only creating an unparalleled oeuvre of scholarship in several areas of anthropology but also unabashedly calling foul on any untenable or patronizing concepts of "us" and "them," "primitive" and "modern," that cross their path. For this pamphlet, they crack the yellowing diaries kept by Melville and Frances Herskovits on their famous 1920s expedition deep into the South American jungle, exposing--with their trademark combination of deadpan wit and theoretical rigor--the origins of the field that has come to be known as African diaspora studies." (publisher)
Hall examines the wealth of materials in the diaries of Thomas Thistlewood, a young man with considerable experiences and full of curiosity. Thistlewood's diaries are of special interest, for he entertained representatives from both of the land of gentry and, because of the slaves and free blacks and coloureds.;
