The Adventures of China Iron - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Adventures of China Iron write by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. This book was released on 2019-11-14. The Adventures of China Iron available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 1872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of her new-found friend Liz, a settler from Scotland. 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 the ruthless violence involved in nation-building. This subversive retelling of Argentina’s foundational gaucho epic Martín Fierro is a celebration of the colour and movement of the living world, the open road, love and sex, and the dream of lasting freedom. With humour and sophistication, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara has created a joyful, hallucinatory novel that is also an incisive critique of national myths.
Riding the Iron Rooster
Riding the Iron Rooster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Riding the Iron Rooster write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2006-12-08. Riding the Iron Rooster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that “gives the reader much to relish and think about” (Publishers Weekly). The author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. The always irascible, infectiously curious author “is in top form as he describes the barren deserts of Mongolia and Xinjiang, the ice forests of Manchuria and the dry hills of Tibet. He captures their otherworldly, haunting appearances perfectly. He is also right on target when he talks about the ugliness of China's poorly planned, hastily built cities” (Mark Salzman, The New York Times). Theroux hops aboard a train as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. From sweeping and desolate natural landscapes to the dense metropolises of Shanghai, Beijing, and Canton, Theroux offers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and an extraordinary people.
Blood and Iron
Blood and Iron - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood and Iron write by Dan MacGregor. This book was released on 2001. Blood and Iron available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Fresh from the wilds of Wyoming, young Marine Corporal Rankin is savagely tested in the Battle of Manila Bay and the Boxer Rebellion."--Page 4 of cover.
Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa
Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa write by . This book was released on 2024-01-15. Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of various deperipheralization contexts and processes for poetics? Using theoretical sections and case studies, this book surveys and investigates the limits of globalization. Through explorations of the intercultural dynamics, the aesthetic contributions of former peripheries are examined in terms of the transformative nature of peripheries on centralities.
Towards a Feminist Translator Studies
Towards a Feminist Translator Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards a Feminist Translator Studies write by Helen Vassallo. This book was released on 2022-10-17. Towards a Feminist Translator Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pioneering work advocates for a shift toward inclusivity in the UK translated literature landscape, investigating and challenging unconscious bias around women in translation and building on existing research highlighting the role of translators as activists and agents and the possibilities for these new theoretical models to contribute to meaningful industry change. The book sets out the context for the new subdiscipline of feminist translator studies, positing this as an essential mechanism to work towards diversity in the translated literature sector of the publishing industry. In a series of five case studies that each exemplify a key component of the feminist translator studies "toolkit", Vassallo draws on exclusive interviews with a range of activist translators and publishers, setting these in dialogue with contemporary perspectives on feminism and translation to propose a new agent-based model of feminist translation practice. In synthesising these perspectives, Vassallo makes a powerful argument for questioning existing structures in the translated literature publishing system which perpetuate bias and connects these conversations to wider social movements towards promoting demonstrable change in the industry. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of translation studies and publishing, as well as for the various agents involved in promoting translated literature in the UK and beyond.
