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Imaginings of Empty Spaces: “The Adventures of China Iron” by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Translated from Spanish by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre

By Robin Munby “I was definitely getting a taste for them, kisses from girls and gay gauchos” (132), says China, the eponymous narrator of The Adventures of China Iron, reflecting on the previous evening’s drunken orgy. Though set in the mid-19th century, you would be hard-pressed to find much common ground between the “erotics of […]