Island in the Stream

Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture
Herausgeber: Taylor, David; Soriano, Armando Fernandez; Slovic, Scott

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9781498599160
• ISBN-10: 1498599168
• Artikelnr.: 56722893

Autorenporträt

Armando Fernandez Soriano is coordinator for ecological politics for La Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre in Cuba. 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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
Contributor's Biographies