Write a reflection essay based on the following prompt: Sor Juana was a complex figure: a woman in a patriarchal society, a court favorite, a nun who once fired her confessor. Find passages from Sor...

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Title: Reflective Essay on Sor Juana
Contents
Cultural Position of Sor Juana    3
Her World and Enduring Legacy    3
Cultural Position of Sor Juana
    Sor Juana was one of the greatest writers to emerge from the continent of North America after the European conquest. She was a 17th-century writer, intellectual as well as a nun with a huge corpus of literary works. Although in certain works she has positioned ambivalently regarding colonialism, for instance, in her play 'Occident and America', she seemed offended by colonialism and oppression on the native people, while at the same time she considered colonization to...