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THE ADVENTURES OF CHINA IRON - GABRIELA CABEZON CAMARA
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THE ADVENTURES OF CHINA IRON
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020
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.
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. 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 Argentina's richly diverse flora and fauna, cultures and languages, as well as to its national struggles. After a clash with Colonel Hernández the author who 'stole' Martín Fierro's poems and a drunken orgy with gauchos, they eventually find refuge and a peaceful future in a utopian indigenous community, the river- dwelling Iñchiñ people.
Seen from an ox-drawn wagon, 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 Fierro from 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
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara was born in Buenos Aires in 1968. She 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 , and La Isla de la Luna Island of the Moon, 2012 . She has also published the comic Beya, le viste la cara a Dios Biutiful, You've Seen God's Face , based on the former text and illustrated by Iñaki Echeverría 2013 . The graphic novel won the Argentine Senate's Alfredo Palacios Prize and was recognised by Buenos Aires City Council and the Congress of Buenos Aires Province for its social and cultural significance and its vital contribution in the fight against human trafficking. In 2014 she published the novel Romance de la Negra Rubia Romance of the Black Blonde and the following year she produced Sacrificios Sacrifices , edited by the Argentinian National Library for the Bicentenary Collection. Also in 2015 her book of stories, Y su despojo fue una muchedumbre And Her Waste Was a Crowd came out, illustrated once again by Iñaki Echeverría. In 2013 she was writer in residence at UC Berkeley, where she also taught. She was one of the founders of the NiUnaMenos "Not One Less" movement against femicides and gender violence. The Adventures of China Iron is her most recent novel.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
CABEZON CAMARA GABRIELA
Nació en Buenos Aires en 1968. Es escritora y periodista cultural. Estudió Letras en la Universidad de Buenos Aires UBA . En 2013 fue becada como Resident Writer en la Universidad de Berkeley, California y, en mayo de este año, recibió la beca de la Literarisches Colloquium Berlin también como escritora residente. Sus artículos fueron publicados en distintos medios como Página12, Le monde diplomatique, Anfibia, Revista Ñ y revista Crisis. Trabajó como editora de Cultura del diario Clarín y actualmente se desempeña como docente en carrera de Artes de la Escritura de la Universidad Nacional de las Artes e imparte talleres en diversas instituciones. Publicó, entre otros libros, La virgen cabeza, Le viste la cara a Dios y Romance de la Negra Rubia. Su novela China Iron fue elegida entre los libros del año en la edición en español del New York Times y de El País de España.
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