“…While some scholars have focused on the biographical and referential aspects of the book (Choperena, ) and others have considered it as a hybrid between fiction and autobiography (Laffrado, ), there are some who understand the book just as fiction or “autobiographical‐based fiction” (Jensen, ). In this paper, we understand Hospital Sketches as the first representative of a large constellation of books, which belong to the genre of “triumphal narrative.” Triumphal narrative, as defined by the historian Jane Schultz, refers to a set of narratives which depicted the experiences of those women who had taken care of the injured soldiers during the American Civil War (Schultz, ).…”