ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the conflicts during Sor Juana's time, and subsequently, focuses on perceptions about the today debates. On March 1, 1691, Sor Juana signed the Respuesta a Sor Filotea, one of her most famous texts. From among Sor Juana's supporters, there is extant an enigmatic letter, Carta de Serafina de Cristo, lost for centuries, and revealed to sorjuanistas in 1995 for the 500th anniversary of Sor Juana's death. This letter was difficult to interpret before the appearance of Discurso, which provided some clues, specifically references to other texts from the debate, such as that of a pseudo "María de Ataide". Between 1688 and 1692 Sor Juana's poems and plays were published, with great success. In the following years there was nothing interesting to add: the discovery in Lisbon in 1968 of Sor Juana's Enigmas did not attract attention, nor would it have produced much change in the "debate".
