About self in conventual letters. From Santa Teresa de Jesús to a nun of the Capuchin convent of Buenos Aires (XIX century)

Authors

  • Victoria Cohen Imach Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Universidad Nacional de Tucumán

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v.n5.23263

Keywords:

nuns, conventual's letters, self, Saint Teresa de Jesus

Abstract

This paper analyses the letters sent probably (most of them, at least) towards the 1820's by a nun, María Jacinta, from the Capuchin convent in Buenos Aires, to a lay interlocutor, José Miguel de Tagle, and confronts them with those sent in-between 1575 and 1582 by Saint Teresa de Jesús to the discalced Carmelite Jerónimo Gracián. Certain traits in the construction of the self present in Maria Jacinta's letters, which are absent, or found less continuous or intensely, in those written during years previous to her time by other nuns from convents in Córdoba and Potosí (also probably in one case) -among them: a visible and consistent "I" endowed with thickness, labile and close to the interlocutor- in the future could possibly be related to what critical observations and historiography point out about the emergence of new ways of representing subjectivity in Western culture and to the changes that took place in Buenos Aires during the XIX1 century. Yet, this paper proposes that these traits can also be related to, and, moreover, have certain points in common with some characteristics present in the Teresian series written over two hundred years before.

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Author Biography

  • Victoria Cohen Imach, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Universidad Nacional de Tucumán

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2009-12-01

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About self in conventual letters. From Santa Teresa de Jesús to a nun of the Capuchin convent of Buenos Aires (XIX century). (2009). Anuario Del Centro De Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti, 5, 79-94. https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v.n5.23263