Fiction
Lieutenant Nun
A Beacon Press paperback of Catalina de Erauso's seventeenth-century memoir, translated by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto, about a Basque nun who escaped the convent in 1599, crossed the Atlantic, and lived as a man among Spanish soldiers in Peru and Chile. The book is one of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, though the categories it defies are more interesting than the label. Beacon Press issued it in the standard trade paperback format with a cover that signals historical recovery without sensationalism.Ideal reader: the reader who prefers autobiographies that raise questions about identity rather than settle them, or the historian who wants evidence that the colonial Americas were stranger than the textbooks suggest.
US$5.00
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