Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Cuba in the Transamerican ImaginaryIn the nineteenth century, the island of Cuba was a popular site for US travelers, who wrote dozens of travelogues about their experiences. At the same time, Cuban exiles living in the United States, escaping from Spanish colonial repression, wrote about their island and about their US experiences. Within the trove of writings about Cuba in relation to slavery and a rising US empire in the region, Ivonne M. Garca's Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth