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.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionScott Slovic and David Taylor1."Dimensions of Nature and Ecofeminism in the narratives of Excilia Saldaña," Mariana G. Serra Garcia2."Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition," Gabriel Horowitz3."Men and Women of the Earth in the Texts of Marti's Travels," Mayra Beatriz Martinez4."Antonio Nuñz Jiménez, Oswaldo Guayasamín, and the Recovery of Cuba's Progressive Intellectuals," Susan E. Bender5."Lydia Cabrera and The Narrative of Nature," Margarita Mateo Palmer6."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. Handley7."Cuban Theatre and the Dilemma of Nature," Karina Pino Gallardo8."Among the Ruins of Ecological Thought: Parasites, Trash, and Nuclear Imaginings in La fiesta vigilada," Christina Maria GarciaAppendix: Literary Responses9."Of the African in Cuba," Heriberto Feraudy Espino10."The Gardener's Creed," Alison Hawthorne Deming11."Weight," Sylvia Torti12."The Cuba Poems," Robert M. Pyle13."Restauración," Laura Ruiz Montes14."Lessons from Cuba," Blas Falconer15."El Trompo: In the Sierra Mountains with Guerilla de Teatreros," David Taylor16."Something Wonderful and Surreal: American Ecocritics and Environmental Writers Contemplate Exile in Cuba as Donald Trump Eyes the White House," Scott SlovicContributor's Biographies