Introduction : ''Twixt the green sea and the azured vault'
Contexts : women writers in neo-colonial Cuba, 1900-59
Mother Nation : female subjectivity and national identity in Cuba, l900-35
Dulce María Loynaz : horror of house and home
Fina García Marruz : love of mother and God
Contexts : women writers in post-revolutionary Cuba, 1959-92
Women's short stories : the feminist and the female
Mother Africa and cultural memory : Nancy Morejón, Georgina Herrera, Excilia Saldaña
The mother and female desire : poetry in the 1980s and early 1990s
Final comment : One hundred years of hard-won independence : women writers and the special period.
