About the author
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is an Argentine writer and journalist whose fiction reworks historical forms through queer, feminist, and anti-colonial perspectives.
The Adventures of China Iron revisited the gaucho epic Martín Fierro from the position of a woman left outside it. We Are Green and Trembling turns the life of Antonio de Erauso into a colonial picaresque narrated among Indigenous women.
Where to start
Start with We Are Green and Trembling for the colonial journey, or The Adventures of China Iron for Cabezón Cámara’s best-known revision of Argentine national literature.
