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 -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.