Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Natural Histories

Sugar and the Environment in Cuba (Antonio Benítez-Rojo)

Isla Incognita (Derek Walcott)

Shaping the Environment: Sugar Plantation, or Life after Indentured Labor (Cyril Dabydeen)

Coffee and Colonialism in Julia Alvarez's A Cafecito Story (Trenton Hickman)

Part 2: Myths of Origins

Subjection and Resistance in the Transformation of Guyana's Mytho-Colonial Landscape (Shona N. Jackson)

A Long Bilingual Conversation Concerning Paradise Lost: Landscapes in Haitian Art (LeGrace Benson)

"Caribbean Genesis": Language, Gardens, Worlds (Jamaica Kincaid, Derek Walcott, Edouard Glissant) (Jana Evans Braziel)

"The Argument of the Outboard Motor": An Interview with Derek Walcott (George B. Handley)

Part 3: Hybridity and Creolization

Cultural and Environmental Assimilation in Martinique: An Interview with Raphael Confiant (Renée K. Gosson)

Moving the Caribbean Landscape: Cereus Blooms at Night as a Re-imagination of the Caribbean Environment (Isabel Hoving)

"Rosebud is my mama, stanfaste is my papa": Hybrid Landscapes and Sexualities in Surinamese Oral Literature (Natasha Tinsley)

"He of the Trees": Nature, Environment, and the Creole Religiosities in Caribbean Literature (Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert)

Part 4: Aesthetics of the Earth

"Man Fitting the Landscape": Nature, Culture, and Colonialism (Helen Tiffin)

Flashbacks of an Orchid: Rhizomatic Narration in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des derniers gestes (Heidi Bojsen)

Landscapes, Narratives, and Tropical Nature: Creole Modernity in Suriname (Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger)

The Uses of Landscape: Ecocriticism and Martinican Cultural Theory (Eric Prieto)

From Living Nature to Borderless Culture in Wilson Harris's Work (Hena Maes-Jelinek)

Epilogue: Theater of the Arts (Wilson Harris)

Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Edited by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey,
Renée K. Gosson, and George B. Handley