By Sonia Pérez-Villanueva

The lifetime of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early sleek Autobiography examines Vida y sucesos de l. a. Monja Alférez as a kind of autobiography via a comparative learn with early-modern secular existence 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 varied from picaresque novels, chronicles of the recent global, and squaddies’ narratives? How are the similarities and modifications among Vida y sucesos and those types of writing concerning theoretical parameters for an autobiography? with the intention to behavior this comparative research, 4 theoretical parameters are validated for assessing autobiographical texts. those parameters (coincidence of narrator and protagonist, ancient referentiality, no matter 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 severe strategy of hybridity and intersubjectivity, but additionally draw upon comparable theoretical paintings. This ebook argues that Vida y sucesos should be regarded as a kind of autobiography, with the certainty that autobiography is an intersubjective and hybrid shape or a forma fronteriza.

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