From the margins of history : gender and nationalism in Spanish American literature -- The return of the prodigal daughter : the new world discovery of la condesa de Merlin -- The view from the harbor : gender subversion in the literature of the second discovery -- A nation invented : imagining Cuba in Merlin and the Del Monte circle -- (In)versions and (re)writings : viaje a La Habana and the origins of Cuban literature -- Bound to the (male) book : gender, colonialism, and slavery in La Havane -- Creole women : the other as self -- La comtesse stares back : the many faces of Merlin in Cuban literature
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-305) and index
