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The Adventures of China Iron
Gabriela Cabezon Camara, Fiona Mackintosh (translation), Iona Macintyre (translation)( ** China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for Fierro, reference to the gaucho Martín Fierro, from José Hernández’s epic poem. )
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s joyful, hallucinatory novel is also an incisive critique of national myths & a requiem for the casualties of ‘progress’.
Translated by Fiona Mackintosh & Iona Macintyre.
This is a riotous romp, taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of Mrs China Iron, Martín Fierro’s abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon-to-become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. Seen from an ox-drawn wagon, the narrative moves through the Argentinian landscape, charting the flora & fauna of the Pampas, Gaucho culture, Argentinian nation-building & British colonial projects.
In a unique, subversive reformulation of Argentina's history & foundational gaucho literary tradition, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, with humour & sophistication, re-writes Martín Fierro from a feminist, LGBT, postcolonial point of view in celebration of the colour & movement of the living world, the open road, love & sex, & the dream of lasting freedom. She creates a hilarious, hallucinatory novel that is nevertheless incisive in its criticism of the way societies come into being & the way they venerate mythical heroes.
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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara was born in Buenos Aires. She is one of the leading figures in Argentinian & Latin American literature & has published the novel Slum Virgin (known in Spanish as La Virgen Cabeza, 2009), the nouvelle Le viste la cara a Dios (You’ve Seen God’s Face, 2011), & La Isla de la Luna (Island of the Moon, 2012).
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