Quill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art surrounding the legendary Lady in Blue and her historical counterpart, Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda.
This legendary figure, identified as seventeenth-century Spanish nun and writer Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, miraculously appeared to tribes in colonial-era New Mexico and taught them the rudiments of the Catholic faith. Sor María, an author of mystical Marian texts, became renowned not only for her alleged spiritual travel from her cloister in Spain to New Mexico but also for her writing, studied and implemented by Franciscans and others around the world. Working from original historical accounts, archival research, and a wealth of literature on the legend and the historical figure alike, Anna M. Nogar meticulously examines how and why the person and the legend became intertwined in Catholic consciousness and social praxis.
Nogar addresses the influence of Sor María’s spiritual texts on many spheres of New Spanish and Spanish society over several centuries. Eventually, the historical Sor María and her writings virtually disappeared from view, and the Lady in Blue became a prominent folk figure in the present-day U.S. Southwest and U.S.-Mexico borderlands, appearing in folk stories, artwork, literature, theater, and public ritual that survives today. Quill and Cross in the Borderlands documents the material legacy of a legend that has survived and thrived for hundreds of years, and at the same time rediscovers the extraordinary impact of a hidden writer.
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Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: A Literary Protomissionary in the Borderlands
1. Seventeenth-Century Spiritual Travel to New Mexico: A Miracle Narrative in Text
2. Sor María’s Rise as Mystical Writer and Protomissionary in Early Modern Spain
3. “Como si fuera natural de México”: Publication, Reading, and Interpretation of Sor María’s Writing in Colonial Mexico
4. “Aquella voz de las conversiones”: Writer and Missionary on the New Spanish Frontier
5. Blue Lady of Lore: The Lady in Blue Narrative and Sor María in the Folklore of the American Southwest
6. Sor María and the Lady in Blue in Contemporary Cultural Imagination
Conclusion: Quill and Cross In New Spain
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Sobre el autor
Anna M. Nogar is professor of Hispanic Southwest studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Associate Dean for Humanities & Interdisciplinary Units at the University of New Mexico.
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