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. Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World. This book examines Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alferez as a form of autobiography through a comparative study with early-modern secular life narratives. There have been recent editions of Erausos biography in both Spanish and English, so that her story is accessible for teachers of English-medium classes in film, gender studies, or cultural studies, as well as those in Spanish departments.
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