Lieutenant nun
Subtitle: memoir of a Basque transvestite in the New World
By: Catalina de Erauso ; translated from the Spanish by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto ; foreword by Marjorie Garber.
Contributors: Stepto, Michele.; Stepto, Gabriel.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Erauso, Catalina de, b. ca. 1592.; Spain -- Biography.; Latin America -- Biography.
Description: "English version of Historia de la monja alférez (1988), the 'autobiographical' account of a Basque woman who fled convent life in Spain; made her way to the Indies disguised as a page boy; and spent 22 years as a soldier in the colonies, mostly in Chile and the Perus, in early 17th century. Traditionally rejected as a work of fiction, Catalina de Erauso's story has been verified - to the extent that verification is possible - as well as authenticated by recent scholarship. [MTH]"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.