Author | : Sonia Pérez-Villanueva |
File Size | : 53,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 14 January 2014 |
ISBN | : 9781611476613 |
Pages | : 286 pages |
The Life of Catalina de Erauso the Lieutenant Nun by Sonia Pérez-Villanueva Book PDF Summary
This book examines Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez as a form of autobiography through a comparative study with early-modern secular life narratives. Two questions are addressed. How is Vida y sucesos similar to or different from picaresque novels, chronicles of the New World and soldiers’ narratives? How are the similarities and differences between Vida y sucesos and these forms of writing related to theoretical parameters for an autobiography? This book argues that Vida y sucesos should be considered as a form of autobiography, with the understanding that autobiography is an intersubjective and hybrid form or a forma fronteriza.