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The adventures of China Iron

Title: The adventures of China Iron / Gabriela Cabezón Cámara ; translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh.
Author: Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela, 1968-
Publication: Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2019.

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Description

188 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Aventuras de la China Iron. English

Alternative Title

Aventuras de la China Iron.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Lesbian fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.

Note

Translated from the Spanish.
"First published in Spanish as Las aventuras de la China Iron by Penguin Random House Group (Argentina)"--Title page verso.
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.

Contents

pt. ONE THE PAMPAS -- It Was the Brightness of the Light -- The Wagon -- We Come from Dust -- La China Isn't a Name -- Everything Covered Me like a Second Skin -- Under the British Empire -- Dragons and My Pampa All Mixed Up Together -- At the Mercy of the Caranchos -- Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank -- The Morbid Light of Dead Men's Bones -- Tank You Senorafor Cure Me -- By Dint of Force -- That's Also Something You Eat and Drink with Scones -- British Science -- Suspended in the Air -- We Branded Each and Every Animal -- An Orphan's Fate -- I Was Burning My Bridges -- A Prophet with a Paintbrush -- pt. TWO THE FORT -- Dressed to the Nines -- A Dust Cloud Can Linger -- Do Come In, My Dear -- Colours Became Detached from Their Objects -- I Climaxed Too -- Tangled Legs -- A Bunch of Short Dark Hapsburgs -- The Whip and the Rod -- That Strange Gaucho Who Fancied Himself as a Writer -- Punch and Whisky -- You Fucking Whore! -- Goodbye, Colonel -- pt. THREE INDIAN TERRITORY -- Frothing like Foam -- As If the Milky Way Began or Ended Right There in Her Hands -- The Earth Croaked -- An Erratic Flight -- Most Were Naked and Beautiful -- Oh China, Love, Forgive Me Now -- But We Don't Have Any Weapons -- Light is Doubled on the Islands -- Contemplating the Trees -- I Wish You Could See Us.

Call Number

JFD 21-587

ISBN

9781916465664
1916465668
9781999368425 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1120193149

Author

Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela, 1968- author.

Title

The adventures of China Iron / Gabriela Cabezón Cámara ; translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

Since 1810

Added Author

Mackintosh, Fiona J. (Fiona Joy), 1970- translator.

Macintyre, Iona, translator.

Based on (work): Hernández, José, 1834-1886. Martín Fierro.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781999368425

Research Call Number

JFD 21-587

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