ABSTRACT
This chapter zooms into Rita Indiana Hernández’s La mucama de Omicunlé. My interpretation of this novel frames this story of environmental collapse, artistic creativity and time traveling with regard to debates on the Anthropocene and Caribbean Studies. What we find in Indiana Hernández’s novel, I suggest, is not a rejection of modern, nation-based cultural institutions, but rather a complex process in which institutions and artists have to repurpose their goals. One of the two pillars of the analysis offered in this section deals, therefore, with art education and cultural autonomy. The second one engages the other main artistic venue looks at La Mucama from the point of view of ecocritical Caribbean Studies and extractive reason.
