Yo-cuerpo y escritura de vida. (Para una tecnología de la corporalidad femenina en los siglos XVI y XVII)

Abstract

On the guidelines of the hagiography and under the mandate of the letter-confession the colonial nuns write their life. Their story is, in appearance, the one of a modelic life, that nothing leaves the improvisation. In front of the autobiographical writing that would be to later arrive three centuries, the texts that say ‘I’ in the 16th and the 17th cent. do not conform the story of an identity or subjectivity, nor either of a character, but of a body. From here, the stories of life of Maria of San José, Úrsula Suárez and the Madre Castillo exemplify the design of a complex corporal technology born in the crossing of models.