Autobiographical and Creative Writing of 17th Century Spanish Nuns

FAIN: FA-12208-78

Electra Arenal
CUNY Research Foundation, College of Staten Island (Staten Island, NY 10314-6609)

To complete a book in progress entitled Ten Sisters: Seventeenth Century Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Words, a critical selection of autobiographical and creative writing by the nuns themselves, with an introductory essay that will explore the significance of the convent as a locus of female culture in Renaissance Spain and Hispanic America.