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We are green and trembling / Gabriela Cabezón Cámara ; translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers.
Van Pelt Library PQ7798.413.A3 N5613 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Cabezón We
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela, 1968- author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1635.
- New Directions paperbook ; 1635
- Standardized Title:
- Niñas del naranjel. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Spain--History--House of Austria, 1516-1700--Fiction.
- Spain.
- South America--History--To 1806--Fiction.
- South America.
- Erauso, Catalina de, approximately 1592---Fiction.
- Erauso, Catalina de.
- Trans men--Fiction.
- Trans men.
- Conquerors--Fiction.
- Conquerors.
- Spanish fiction--Translations into English.
- Spanish fiction.
- Genre:
- Transgender fiction.
- Queer fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- LGBTQ+ fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 196 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he's become Antonio and undertaken monumental adventures: he has been a cabin boy, mule driver, shopkeeper, soldier, and conquistador; he has wielded his sword and slashed with his dagger. Now, caring for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement and hounded by the army he deserted, this protean protagonist contemplates one more metamorphosis ... Based on the life of Antonio de Erauso, a real figure of the Spanish conquest, We Are Green and Trembling is a queer baroque satire that blends elements of the picaresque with surreal storytelling. Its rich and wildly imaginative language forms a searing criticism of conquest, colonialism, and religious tyranny, as well as of the treatment of women and indigenous people. It is a masterful subversion of Latin American history with a trans character at its center, finding in the rainforest a magically alive space where transformation is not only possible but necessary"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780811238618
- 081123861X
- OCLC:
- 1457623938
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