An Island in the Stream

Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture

David Taylor, Scott Slovic, Armando Fernandez Soriano (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498599184 (ISBN)

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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. The chapters explore Cuba’s vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as ecofeminism, postcolonial ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and the nuclear imaginary, among others. American environmentalists have long viewed modern Cuba as a model of progressive environmental thinking. In the 1990s, the Cuban government made sustainability a centerpiece of national policy initiatives. This book explores some of the historical foundations of contemporary sustainability efforts in Cuba, while also describing the current environmental situation in that part of the world. From José Martí to Excilia Saldaña, from Antonio Nuñez Jiménez to Lydia Cabrera, the chapters here aim to provide a starting point for others who wish to learn about Cuban environmental thought. The conjunction of scholarly and creative work is a gesture toward the interdependence of humanities research and artistic expression, both of which seek to encourage environmental and cultural mindfulness and sensitivity.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor	Scott Slovic, David Taylor
Zusatzinfo	2 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 220 mm
Gewicht	277 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-13	9781498599184 / 9781498599184
Zustand	Neuware