The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso"This book is an exciting, well-organized overview of the evolution of a cultural icon: the nun-ensign Catalina de Erauso. . . . It will be of interest not only to Hispanists, but also to students of gender, theater, and film." -Anne J. Cruz, Professor of Spanish, University of Illinois, Chicago Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastián, dressed as a man, and, in her own words, "went hither and thither, embarked, went into port, took to roving, slew, wounded, embezzled, and roamed about." Her long service fighting for the Spanish empire in Peru and Chile won her a soldier's pension and a papal dispensation to continue dressing in men's clothing. This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed by both the dominant and divergent cultures in Europe, Latin America, and the United States from the seventeenth century to the present. Sherry Velasco argues that the ways in which literary, theatrical, iconographic, and cinematic productions have transformed Erauso's life experience into a public spectacle show how transgender narratives expose and manipulate spectators' fears and desires. Her book thus reveals what happens when the private experience of a transgenderist is shifted to the public sphere and thereby marketed as a hybrid spectacle for the curious gaze of the general audience. |
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... Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States ' Universities . Copyright © 2000 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition , 2000 Requests for permission to ...
... Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States ' Universities . Copyright © 2000 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition , 2000 Requests for permission to ...
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... Spain , 13 2 Celebrity and Scandal : The Creation of the 3 4 Lieutenant Nun in the Seventeenth Century , 45 Melodrama and the De - Lesbianized Reconstruction of the Lieutenant Nun in the Nineteenth Century , 87 From Cinema to Comics ...
... Spain , 13 2 Celebrity and Scandal : The Creation of the 3 4 Lieutenant Nun in the Seventeenth Century , 45 Melodrama and the De - Lesbianized Reconstruction of the Lieutenant Nun in the Nineteenth Century , 87 From Cinema to Comics ...
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... Spain , England , Latin America , and North America . I argue that the ways in which Erauso's experience has been transformed into a public spectacle help explain the enduring popularity and eco- nomic success of transgender narratives ...
... Spain , England , Latin America , and North America . I argue that the ways in which Erauso's experience has been transformed into a public spectacle help explain the enduring popularity and eco- nomic success of transgender narratives ...
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... Spain . Analyses of sources from offi- cial and popular culture demonstrate how Erauso's icon tapped into the early modern fascination with hybrid monsters and the essentialist be- lief that masculine women were the product of a ...
... Spain . Analyses of sources from offi- cial and popular culture demonstrate how Erauso's icon tapped into the early modern fascination with hybrid monsters and the essentialist be- lief that masculine women were the product of a ...
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... Spain's project of empire - building . Moreover , the association of her vices with homosexual desire ensured that her personal life would not become an acceptable model for future women . In chapter 3 , " Melodrama and the De ...
... Spain's project of empire - building . Moreover , the association of her vices with homosexual desire ensured that her personal life would not become an acceptable model for future women . In chapter 3 , " Melodrama and the De ...
Contents
Hybrid Spectacles Lesbian Desire Monsters Masculine Women in Early Modern Spain | 13 |
Celebrity and Scandal The Creation of the Lieutenant Nun in the Seventeenth Century | 45 |
Melodrama and the DeLesbianized Reconstruction of the Lieutenant Nun in the Nineteenth Century | 87 |
From Cinema to Comics The ReLesbianization of the Lieutenant Nun in the Twentieth Century | 113 |
Conclusion | 167 |
Appendix | 173 |
Notes | 177 |
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Page 4 - I was born in such and such a place, the daughter of this man and this woman, that at a certain age I was placed in a certain convent with a certain aunt, that I was raised there and took the veil and became a novice, and that when I was about to profess my final vows, I left the convent for such and such a reason, went to such and such a place, undressed myself and dressed myself up again, cut my hair, traveled here and there, embarked, disembarked, hustled, killed, maimed, wreaked havoc, and roamed...