![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perez-Villanueva emphasizes delves into theories of autobiography to develop a framework "for evaluating early modern texts in terms of their autobiographical content" (6). This young Basque daughter of a noble family from San Sebastian ventured from a convent in Spain to Peru and Chile, and eventually to Rome before returning once more to the Americas.Ĭritical perspectives on the nature and definition of Erauso's writing vary, according to the author. In Spain's golden age of exploration and literature, when first-person narratives proliferated as records of voyages in old and new worlds, Erauso's life story appeared in pamphlets and circulated widely in the seventeenth-century, both in historical documents, and in Erauso's own first-person account of her journeys. Sonia Perez-Villanueva explains in The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography that the printed version of Catalina de Erauso's life (1592-1650) seems to have experienced as many of the vagaries of human life as the novice turned soldier herself. Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2014. The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography. ![]()
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