
An Island in the Stream
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Scott Slovic is professor of literature and environment and professor of natural resources and society at the University of Idaho and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (2019).
David Taylor is assistant professor of environmental humanities in the Sustainability Studies Program, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University.
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Introduction
Scott Slovic and David Taylor
"Dimensions of Nature and Ecofeminism in the narratives of Excilia Saldaña," Mariana G. Serra Garcia"Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition,"Gabriel Horowitz"Men and Women of the Earth in the Texts of Marti's Travels," Mayra Beatriz Martinez"Antonio Nuñz Jiménez, Oswaldo Guayasamín, and the Recovery of Cuba's Progressive Intellectuals," Susan E. Bender"Lydia Cabrera and The Narrative of Nature," Margarita Mateo Palmer"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"Cuban Theatre and the Dilemma of Nature," Karina Pino Gallardo"Among the Ruins of Ecological Thought: Parasites, Trash, and Nuclear Imaginings in La fiesta vigilada," Christina Maria Garcia
Appendix: Literary Responses
"Of the African in Cuba," Heriberto Feraudy Espino"The Gardener's Creed," Alison Hawthorne Deming"Weight," Sylvia Torti"The Cuba Poems," Robert M. Pyle"Restauración," Laura Ruiz Montes"Lessons from Cuba," Blas Falconer"El Trompo: In the Sierra Mountains with Guerilla de Teatreros," David Taylor"Something Wonderful and Surreal: American Ecocritics and Environmental Writers Contemplate Exile in Cuba as Donald Trump Eyes the White House," Scott Slovic
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