Abstract
Abstract This work analyzes the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the light of court discourse, considering the contributions of Norbert Elias, Barbara Rosenwein, Amedeo Quondam, and Fernando Rodríguez de la Flor, among others. Courtly behaviors, gender, affects, and fortune intersect in romance 36, “Salud y gracia. Sepades”. In this text, as in other poems of her production, the Mexican author is inscribed in a courtly tradition and, at the same time, in an anti-courtly one, by identifying herself with courtly regulations, but, also distancing herself from them. This tension reflects the adoption of metropolitan literature, where both modalities coexist, but also reveals its particular place of enunciation, on the margins of the Spanish empire. The poem goes over the stereotypes regarding female representation through three courtly figurations: the ladies, the Fortune, and the enunciator herself.
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