The Answer/La Respuesta

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Second Critical Edition and Translation by Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell Expanded Edition Including Sor Filotea’s Letter and New Selected Poems The Feminist Press at The City University of New York The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016 www.feministpress.org Second Edition Copyright © 2009 by Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used, stored in any information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying , recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of The Feminist Press at The City University of New York except in case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651–1695. [Respuesta a sor Filotea de la Cruz. English & Spanish]  The answer : expanded edition, including The letter to which it replies & new selected poems = La respuesta / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ; critical edition and translation by Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell. — 2nd ed.     p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-55861-598-4 1. Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651–1695. 2. Authors, Mexican—17th century— Biography. 3. Nuns—Mexico—Biography. 4. Women—Mexico—Social conditions— 17th century. I. Arenal, Electa. II. Powell, Amanda. III. Title. PQ7296.J6R413 2009 861—dc22 This publication is made possible, in part, thanks to the generosity of Ellen Bass, Sallie Bingham, Mariam K. Chamberlain, Helene D. Goldfarb, Joanne Markell, Caroline Urvater, and Genevieve Vaughan. Cover art: Retrato de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz by Miguel Cabrera, 1750, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (CNCA), Mexico. Cover and text design by Drew Stevens 12 11 10 09 6 5 4 3 2 1 ...