Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature
1. “¡Salve, fecunda zona!”: Sugar, Soy, and the Limits of the Spanish American Georgic
2. Plants and Plantations: Floriography, Femininity, and the Horticulture of Hair in Sab and María
3. “Nacido de árboles”: Carpentier’s Vegetal Baroque
4. What Is It Like to Be a Tree? Anthropomorphism, Phytomorphism, and Spanish American Culture
5. “No termino en mí mismo”: “Vegetal-Thinking” in Pablo Neruda
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index