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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s 2017 Las aventuras de la China Iron [The Adventures of China Iron] adapts José Hernández’s epic poem (published in 1872 and 1879) into a tale of empowerment and a journey to freedom for China, the young wife that Hernández’s gaucho Martín Fierro leaves behind. The novel’s playful adaptation both reanimates and critiques Martín Fierro as part of Argentina’s imperialistic and patriarchal cultural foundation. When China and her lover find happiness with an Indigenous community at the end of this novel, they model an alternative space for life coexisting with/in the natural world, living what might be described as ecosophy (Guattari 2008; Næss 2005) or cosmopolítica [cosmopolitics], as Cabezón Cámara terms it. Drawing from ecological philosophy, queer ecologies, and adaptation and decolonial theories, this chapter proposes that China Iron’s adaptation of a cultural touchstone not only deconstructs the categorical edges that constrain subjects within the Argentine nation (i.e., sex/gender/race/citizenship) but also illustrates the splendor of life with/in the ecotones of cultures and texts.

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Cosmopolitics and the Edges of Adaptation in Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s Las aventuras de la China Iron [The Adventures of China Iron]

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    2025年

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  • Elisabeth L. Austin

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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s 2017 Las aventuras de la China Iron [The Adventures of China Iron] adapts José Hernández’s epic poem (published in 1872 and 1879) into a tale of empowerment and a journey to freedom for China, the young wife that Hernández’s gaucho Martín Fierro leaves behind. The novel’s playful adaptation both reanimates and critiques Martín Fierro as part of Argentina’s imperialistic and patriarchal cultural foundation. When China and her lover find happiness with an Indigenous community at the end of this novel, they model an alternative space for life coexisting with/in the natural world, living what might be described as ecosophy (Guattari 2008; Næss 2005) or cosmopolítica [cosmopolitics], as Cabezón Cámara terms it. Drawing from ecological philosophy, queer ecologies, and adaptation and decolonial theories, this chapter proposes that China Iron’s adaptation of a cultural touchstone not only deconstructs the categorical edges that constrain subjects within the Argentine nation (i.e., sex/gender/race/citizenship) but also illustrates the splendor of life with/in the ecotones of cultures and texts.