Schmidt, RachelLara Arboleda, Isabel Cristina2019-10-312019-10-312019-10-29Lara Arboleda, I. C. (2019). Cuerpo, dolor y escritura en los escritos de cuatro religiosas de la Nueva Granada colonial. Los casos de Francisca de Castillo, Jerónima Nava, Francisca del Niño Jesús y Gertrudis de Santa Inés (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.http://hdl.handle.net/1880/111188The aim of this research project is to clarify the relation of the nuns Francisca Josefa de Castillo (1671-1742), Jerónima Nava y Saavedra (1669-1727), Francisca del Niño Jesús (1665-1708) and Gertrudis de Santa Inés (1668-1730) with their own bodies. For this matter, the body has been analyzed from the perspective of performativity, which explains the embodiment of the ideals prevailing in specific periods of time depending on the individual, in this case, that period of time is the New Granada in the years when these nuns lived. The above entails the partition of the body in three, found in the writings of the nuns: the social body, the terrestrial body and the body of the soul. In order to analyze the body as a whole, and its process of sociological, symbolic and lived construction, this thesis takes as important parts of this process the following: pain as a symbolism of death, desire and writing, all the above contained in the figure of the imitation of Christ.spaUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.Nuns, body, pain, eroticism, mystics, female writersImitation of ChristEducation--Language and LiteratureLiterature--Latin Americandoctoral thesis10.11575/PRISM/37226