An Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Scott Slovic and David Taylor
1."Dimensions of Nature and Ecofeminism in the narratives of Excilia Saldañ a," Mariana G. Serra Garcia
2."Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition," Gabriel Horowitz
3."Men and Women of the Earth in the Texts of Marti's Travels," Mayra Beatriz Martinez
4."Antonio Nuñ z Jimé nez, Oswaldo Guayasamí n, and the Recovery of Cuba's Progressive Intellectuals," Susan E. Bender
5."Lydia Cabrera and The Narrative of Nature," Margarita Mateo Palmer
6."The New World Baroque as Postcolonial Ecology in Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps." This essay was originally published in Postcolonial Ecologies (Oxford UP 2011), George B. Handley
7."Cuban Theatre and the Dilemma of Nature," Karina Pino Gallardo
8."Among the Ruins of Ecological Thought: Parasites, Trash, and Nuclear Imaginings in La fiesta vigilada," Christina Maria Garcia
Appendix: Literary Responses
9."Of the African in Cuba," Heriberto Feraudy Espino
10."The Gardener's Creed," Alison Hawthorne Deming
11."Weight," Sylvia Torti
12."The Cuba Poems," Robert M. Pyle
13."Restauració n," Laura Ruiz Montes
14."Lessons from Cuba," Blas Falconer
15."El Trompo: In the Sierra Mountains with Guerilla de Teatreros," David Taylor
16."Something Wonderful and Surreal: American Ecocritics and Environmental Writers Contemplate Exile in Cuba as Donald Trump Eyes the White House," Scott Slovic
Contributor's Biographies
