6/12/2023 0 Comments Lieutenant nun![]() * * * A 'Relación' of Catalina's final years, published in Mexico in 1653, places her death in 1650 in Orizava, on the road to Veracruz.". time and place written Between 16, location unknown. ![]() language Translated from Spanish by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto. genre Memoir, historical nonfiction, Spanish picaresque. * * * Sometime between 16 - that is, between the visit to Naples, which concludes her memoir, and her return to the Americas-she wrote down in manuscript or dictated to an amanuensis an account of her life. At a Glance: full title Memoir of a Basque Lieutenant Nun: Transvestite in the New World. * * * A 'Relación' of Catalina's final years, published in Mexico in 1653, places her death in 1650 in Orizava, on the road to Veracruz." From the introduction to Lieutenant Nun by translator Michele Stepto: "She gives 1585 as the year of her birth, though records in San Sebastian indicate she was baptized in 1592. The Lieutenant Nun’s str ategy was to use heroic and violent actions in a time of conquest and under the mask of her mas culine cos tumes and appearance in order to achieve freedom, pow er and. * * * Sometime between 16 - that is, between the visit to Naples, which concludes her memoir, and her return to the Americas-she wrote down in manuscript or dictated to an amanuensis an account of her life. From the introduction to Lieutenant Nun by translator Michele Stepto: "She gives 1585 as the year of her birth, though records in San Sebastian indicate she was baptized in 1592. ![]()
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