La reina de América
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| Author | Jorge Majfud |
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| Original title | La reina de América |
| Language | Spanish |
| Series | 2 |
| Publisher | Baile del Sol |
Publication date | 2001 |
| Publication place | Uruguay |
| ISBN | 9788495309754 |
| Preceded by | Crítica de la pasión pura |
| Followed by | La ciudad de la Luna |
La reina de América ("The Queen of America") is a novel by Uruguayan author Jorge Majfud. It was published by Baile del Sol in 2002.[1]
This novel is about a family of Spanish immigrants in the nineteen-sixties and the adventures of Consuelo, the daughter of a prostitute to whom the title refers. It is set mainly in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in the midst of the repressive Southern Cone dictatorships.
Mabel and her father run away from their financial bankruptcy in Spain to Argentina in pursuit of the American dream in the first wave of immigration of the century. On their trip, Mabel meets a Danish anarchist named Jacobsen and falls in love with him. Mabel's father dies in Montevideo and this “queen of America” stays in the port's lower-class neighborhood. Several problems hinder Jacobsen's ability to return to Buenos Aires to find Mabel. Her daughter, Consuelo, is raped by one her clients but she manages to enact her vengeance in a striking and cruel way.
Set from approximately 1960 to 1990, the novel ultimately explores the themes of power, politics, sociality, gender, domesticity and culture.