La imagen es la esencia: dialéctica de lo visual y cultura precolombina en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Abstract

One of most important features of Neobarrocco is its cultural relation with images. This article, basing itself on Michel Foucault’s analysis of Las Meninas and on the Bolívar Echeverría’s Ethos barroco , aims to analyze the relation between image, the object of the portrait and observer in the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Our objective is to understand as text puts that relation into poetry without reducing itself to a simple caption.