La construcción de la santidad en la región andina. Resumen breve de la vida de la beata Juana de Jesús (1662-1703) is an annotated edition of the hagiography of Juana de Jesús written by her confessor, Antonio Fernández Sierra, during the first decade of the eighteenth century. Long abandoned in the archives in Quito, this manuscript was well known to eighteenth century intellectuals and served as the basis for two other hagiographies, both written approximately fifty years later. One of the first hagiographies from the periphery of the Spanish empire in South America, this volume allows the contemporary reader to trace the complex interweaving of religious and proto-nationalist discourses that emerged in colonial Quito.
â1âEscritura y reescrituras de la vida de la beata Juana de Jesús
â2âLos retos para llevar a la imprenta Vida prodigiosa
â3âLa lectura como actividad de la comunidad masculina quiteña y la movilidad de sus interpretaciones
â4âEl discurso religioso como medio para la articulación de la identidad local
â5âLa Real Audiencia de Quito en los siglos XVII y XVIII
â6âLa tradición hagiográfica en la región andina
â7âJuana de Jesús, una historia impenetrable
Parte 2: Estudio comparativo
â1âLa transición del discurso piadoso al discurso protonacionalista
â2âResumen breve: La construcción de la beata ejemplar
â3âLas reescrituras
This book will appeal to a wide audience, from experienced academic researchers to graduate students from fields such as Religious Studies, Latin American Studies, Early Modern Studies, Gender Studies, and History.