The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early by Sonia Pérez-Villanueva

By Sonia Pérez-Villanueva

The lifetime of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early glossy Autobiography examines Vida y sucesos de los angeles Monja Alférez as a sort of autobiography via a comparative research with early-modern secular lifestyles narratives: the picaresque novels La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades (anonymous), La pícara Justina by Francisco López de Úbeda, the chronicle Relación que dio Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca de lo acaescido en las Indias en l. a. armada donde yva por governador Pánfilo de Narváez desde el año de veynte y siete hasta el año de treinta y seis que bolvió a Sevilla con tres de su compañía by Cabeza de Vaca and the soldier’s narrative Vida, nacimiento, padres, y crianza del Capitán Alonso de Contreras ordinary de Madrid Cavallero del orden de San Juan Comendador de una de sus encomiendas en Castilla, escrita por el mismo by Alonso de Contreras. questions are addressed: How is Vida y sucesos similar to or assorted from picaresque novels, chronicles of the recent global, and squaddies’ narratives? How are the similarities and ameliorations among Vida y sucesos and those sorts of writing regarding theoretical parameters for an autobiography? that allows you to behavior this comparative research, 4 theoretical parameters are validated for assessing autobiographical texts. those parameters (coincidence of narrator and protagonist, historic referentiality, even if the subjective narration has a believable foundation within the adventure and trust constitution of the narrator and the purpose of the narrator to inform an autobiographical fact) are established upon the serious procedure of hybridity and intersubjectivity, but additionally draw upon similar theoretical paintings. This e-book argues that Vida y sucesos should be regarded as a kind of autobiography, with the knowledge that autobiography is an intersubjective and hybrid shape or a forma fronteriza.

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