The Story of Juana’s Musical Life

There was a girl named Juana Corio. Her mother decided to play the piano all the children long ago, so when Juana attended the kindergarten, her piano lesson began. As a very enthusiastic 5-year-old child, Juana enjoyed exercises from the previous week. Then it began to be monotonous. For the next five years, she despised deliberately to play the piano. Most of her classes were sitting on the bench of the piano next to her mother and wept with tears until music could not be read.

Her first novel, Sor Juana's second dream, Gaspar de Alba, tells the fictitious story of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in Mexico. Due to the era she lived, Sor Juana is expected to get married or enter the monastery. As a lesbian, she chose the latter. He was in danger when she opposed the Inquisition, and the Inquisition he was dissatisfied with the educated woman. Eventually, the hierarchical structure of the church threatened to abandon her reading and writing, Sor Juana led the world to abandon. "The work of this superior scholarship and vision should enhance the awareness of convincing historical figures," the author of Publishers Weekly wrote. In "Library Magazine", Mary Margaret Benson called the novel a "vibrant complex story."

Historians were able to summarize relatively few facts about Juana's life. Generally, they reveal a tragic and sorrowful story that women are still lost in many ways, even if found. Just as the Native American was forced to bring tears to her east, the story of Juanamaria is a story mapping the summary of the 19th century American indigenous tragedy to the hands of European colonialism. St. Nicholas Island is one of the Channel Islands in California. The tribe of Juana Maria known as Nicoleños lived on the island for about 10,000 years. But the long history on the island can not protect them from tragedy. Disasters of Alaska's native and Russian mink hunters attacked the island and destroyed the local residents in 1811 or 1814 - when Juanamaria could become a child. The population of the tribe reached 300 people and declined to dozens after attack.

In 1835, the entire Juanamaria tribe was removed from Saint Nicholas. They did not choose to leave: the Catholic priests of the mainland demanded evacuation, in particular of the entire Nicoleño tribe. The motives of the priest remain unknown. Did they evacuate from the tribe when they felt that they could not keep their time with St Nicholas? Or, more sinfully are they just wanting more physical transformation? Like the story of Juanamaria, these questions may never get answers.