These are the following topics to choose from, I have attached the grading rubric on the paper, it must be 2500 words.
1. Coffee plantations in the Caribbean, making particular use of Manuel Zeno Gandia’s novel La Charca(1894, English translation) and its treatment of the landscapes of coffee production in Puerto Rico
2. Cuban sugar plantations as described in Frederika Bremer’s The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America(1853); Abiel Abbot’s Letters Written in the Interior of Cuba, between the mountains of Arcana, to the east, and of Cusco, to the west, in the months of February, March, April and May, 1828. Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1829; Samuel Hazard’s Cuba with Pen and Pencil(1873); and Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), The Autobiography of a Slave(1835/1840), among other sources.
3. For those with Spanish reading ability, Manuel Zeno Gandia’s El negocio(1922) and the domestic architecture and social spaces of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
4. Urban architecture and landscape in Abiel Abbot’s Letters Written in the Interior of Cuba, between the mountains of Arcana, to the east, and of Cusco, to the west, in the months of February, March, April and May, 1828. Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1829.
5. For those with Spanish reading ability, Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Mis Memorias: Puerto Rico como lo encontre y como lo dejo(1927), architecture and landscape in Puerto Rico.
6. Urban architecture and landscape in Cuba in Samuel Hazard’s Cuba with Pen and Pencil(1873).
7. Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda’s Sab(1841), architecture and landscape in a Cuban slavery novel.
8. Cecilia Valdés(1879) by Cirilo Villaverde, architecture and landscape in the Cuban novel.
9. Architecture and landscape in Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Narrative of St. Vincent(1831).
10. Architecture and landscape in A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834 by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica(1837).
11. Architecture and landscape in Miguel Barnet, Biography of a Runaway Slave(1994), a transcription of the narrative of Cuban slave Esteban Montejo.
