From the Desert to the Indigenous Utopia, from the Literary Periphery to the Center The Adventures of China Iron as a Case of the Internationalization of Peripheral Literatures

LALKOVIČOVÁ, Eva. From the Desert to the Indigenous Utopia, from the Literary Periphery to the Center The Adventures of China Iron as a Case of the Internationalization of Peripheral Literatures. In Petr Kyloušek. Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2024, p. 582–599. Studies in Comparative Literature 105. ISBN 978-90-04-69112-4.

Basic information

• Original name: From the Desert to the Indigenous Utopia, from the Literary Periphery to the Center The Adventures of China Iron as a Case of the Internationalization of Peripheral Literatures
• Name in Czech: Z pouště do domorodé utopie a z literární periferie do centra. Las aventuras de la China Iron jako případ internacionalizace periferních literatur
• Authors: LALKOVIČOVÁ, Eva.
• Edition: Leiden / Boston, Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and Africa, p. 582–599, Studies in Comparative Literature 105, 2024.
• Publisher: Brill

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: Netherlands
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-90-04-69112-4
• Keywords in English: centre and periphery; argentinean literature; latin american literature; postcolonial exotic; world literature; gaucho
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

The Adventures of China Iron is presented as a queer rewriting of the foundational Argentine literary epic El gaucho Martín Fierro and a reconfiguration of the figure of the gaucho as such. This chapter analyses the novel to discuss issues related to the presentation and reception of peripheral literatures in the global literary market as well as their submission to Western universalist values.

Links

• GA20-14919S, research and development project: Name: Centrum a periferie: proměny postkoloniální situace v románských literaturách Ameriky, Afriky a Evropy (Acronym: Centrum a periferie)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation