The fluidification of the subject in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Neptuno Alegórico

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  • Valeria Stabile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.23.23795

Keywords:

Hispano-American Literature, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, poststructuralism, deconstructionism, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze.

Abstract

This essay aims to offer a detailed analysis of the formation of the semiotic subject in the writings of the poet and philosopher sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (San Miguel Nepantla 1648? - Mexico City 1695). In particular, this essay focuses on Neptuno Alegórico, a work by sor Juana that specifically shows what is the meaning of the expression «fluidification of the subject» that appears in the title, also clarifying how this process of fluidification works and what its consequences are. The end point of this essay is a new reading of sor Juana’s text that proposes a reflection on the use and development of new models of the subject that exist outside their essentialist limits. To support and facilitate this new reading, a theoretical framework will be adopted that includes Deleuze’s The Fold and the image of the Derridean khôra.

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Author Biography

Valeria Stabile

Valeria Stabile earned her PhD degree in Language and Hispano-American Literatures and Gender Studies from the Universities of Bologna and Utrecht in 2021. She collaborates with the journal Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani  and with the journal  Postfilosofie. Rivista di pratica filosofica e scienze umane . Her latest publication is “ Entre letra y letra . La sobrevivencia de los espectros en  Fuga en Mí menor  de Sandra Lorenzano” in S. Ferrari and E. Leonardi (eds.)  Rutas Atlánticas. Redes Narrativas entre América Latina y Europa.  Milano University Press, Milano, 2021.

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Cruz, sor Juana Inés de la. Neptuno Alegórico. Edición de Vincent Martin y Electa Arenal. Madrid: Cátedra, 2009.

Deleuze, Gilles. La piega: Leibniz e il Barocco. Torino: Einaudi, 2004.

Derrida, Jacques. Della Grammatologia. Milano: Jaca Book, 1988.

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Derrida, Jacques. Chôra. Milano: Jaca Book, 2019.

Jones, Joseph. «La erudición elegante»: Observations on the Emblematic Tradition in Sor Juana’s «Neptuno Alegórico»  and Sigüenza’s «Teatro de Virtudes Políticas». Hispanófila. 65 (Enero 1979), 43-58.

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Published

2022-07-01

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Stabile, V. (2022). The fluidification of the subject in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s <em>Neptuno Alegórico</em>. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 23, 61–70. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.23.23795
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