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
