Gothic geoculture : nineteenth century representations of Cuba in the transamerican imaginary Examines the ways writers in Cuba and the United States represented the island as gothic between 1830 and 1890 through specific tropes of monstrosity possession infection and corruptive hypersexuality and how some writers coded Cuba as dangerous and destructive Corruptive gothicscapes: William Cullen Bryants Letters of a traveller and Nathaniel Parker Williss Health trip to the Tropics Gothicized souths: Martin R. Delanys Blake or The huts of America and Louisa May Alcotts Paulines passion and punishment Transgressive hauntings: Sophia Peabodys Cuba journal and Mary Peabody Manns Juanita: a romance of real life in Cuba fifty years ago Gothic emplotments: Cirilo Villaverdes Cecilia Valds and the story of Evangelina Cisneros told by herself Inside the monster: José Martís decolonial transamericanity Conclusion: Decolonizing the gothic.