![]() ![]() She even kills his friend when he jumps to Reyes’s defense. The first example of this occurs when she confronts and attacks Reyes, severely wounding him. Law and order are rare commodities in colonial South America and, when acquired, are poorly maintained by the Spanish government.Įrauso’s fierce temper, however, is in perfect harmony with the macho culture of the day, which allows her to survive in the 17th century -a world in which an insult to one’s honor is usually met with death. In Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World, Erauso gives a firsthand account of her life in the 17th-century Spanish colonial empire.Īlthough Erauso strongly identifies with her Basque home region and is shown friendship and favoritism by Basqueros she meets in the New World, she, nevertheless, comes to feel she is part of a greater Spanish nationalism and embraces the Spanish identity in which non-Spaniards see her. As a woman, Erauso had to quickly adapt to this world when she assumed a man’s life rather than be a nun. One’s life often depended on how well he could handle a sword, and his honor depended on how quick he was to use it. The Spanish world that Catalina de Erauso was born into was an extremely violent one in which lethal duels were a matter of a day’s work in the life of a conquistador. ![]()
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