Itinerant Prophetesses of Transatlantic Discourse

José Piedra

Chapter Chapter 1 in Women at Sea, 2001, pp 9-40 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Te he inscrito en la vida; te queda tiempo para la mía. (I have inscribed you into life; you have time left for mine.) So answered my mother in her golden-gray years in Miami exile to my question “Why don’t you write the story of your life?” To a certain extent I have heard this before, such as when quoting the Bible (11 Corinthians, 3:3), Christopher Columbus felt forced to embrace Queen Isabella’s transatlantic life story just as Christ had done with his own Father as He signaled to him “You are our epistle … written not in ink, but … in fleshy tables of the heart…”

Keywords: Indian Woman; Spanish Woman; Caribbean Coast; Terra Incognita; Male Authority (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-08515-3_2

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