Name: The Adventures of China Iron (in English)
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Author: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
ISBN: 9781916465664

portada The Adventures of China Iron (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Publisher

Charco Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781916465664

Synopsis "The Adventures of China Iron (in English)"

A riotous romp taking the reader from the frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of China Iron, Martín Fierros abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a wagon with her new-found friend and lover, Liz. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their eyes are opened to the wonders of Argentinas richly diverse flora and fauna, cultures and languages, as well as to its struggles. After a clash with Colonel Hernández (the author who stole Martín Fierros poems) and a drunken orgy with gauchos, they eventually find refuge and a peaceful future in an utopian indigenous community. The narrative moves through the Argentinian landscape, charting the flora and fauna of the Pampas, Gaucho culture, Argentinian nation-building and British colonial projects. In a unique reformulation of history and literary tradition, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, with humour and sophistication, re-writes Martín Fierrofrom a feminist, LGBT, postcolonial point of view. She creates a hilarious novel that is nevertheless incisive in its criticism of the way societies come into being, and the way they venerate mythical heroes.

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara es una escritora argentina nacida en 1968. Ha ejercido múltiples oficios, desde vender seguros de auto en la calle hasta el periodismo cultural. Actualmente imparte talleres de escritura. Traducida a más de una decena de idiomas, es autora de las nouvelles Le viste la cara a Dios (2011) y Romance de la Negra Rubia (2014), y de las novelas La Virgen Cabeza (2009) y Las aventuras de la China Iron, finalista en la shortlist del International Booker Prize (2020) y del Médicis (2021).

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