Read Jessica Powell's interview by Lucina Schell, Editor of http://readingintranslation.com, on Woman in Battle Dress, the last published work by renowned Cuban writer Antonio Benítez-Rojo, which is just out in translation by Powell from City Lights Books. The  sweeping epic imagines the remarkable life of 19th-Century historical figure Henriette Faber, who lived as a man in order to study medicine.

Read more of this post at: http://readingintranslation.com/2015/10/15/passing-in-translation-jessica-powell-on-antonio-benitez-rojos-woman-in-battle-dress

Tags include Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Caribbean literature, City Lights  Press, Cuba, exile, Fiction, gender studies, historical fiction, Queer literature, translation from Spanish.