ÚRSULA SUÁREZ Y ÚRSULA DE JESÚS: AUTOFIGURACIÓN Y AUTORIDAD EN LA TEMPRANA MODERNIDAD AMERICANA

Abstract

Conventual writing during Early American Modernity implied a delineation of a space of enunciation along with self-representation, which were the basis for legitimating their right to speak. Úrsula Suárez and Úrsula de Jesús write, at the behest of their confes-sors, an account of their lives in which the mystic discourse enables them to reconfigure not only their own voices and those of others