Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Personal Character, Authorship, and the Incidental Caribbean; Part One: Castle Dismal: Reinaldo Arenas as Boy and Girl; 1 A House in the Woods; 2 Pan's Labyrinth; 3 Lady in the Hot Seat; 4 A House of Sand; 5 The A-Frame Agony; Part Two: The Lord's Envy: Lezama Lima as Satan Knows Best; 6 Son of Gorgo; 7 Mother Nero, Uncle Orpheus, and the Unborn; 8 Paradiso as a Five-Star Inferno; Part Three: Planet Cuba up in the Clouds; 9 Gargling the Tribe; 10 Babel Hustle and Flow; 11 Discordance; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C
