1. Banana, Banana, Banana Section I: From Ornament to Nourishment: Painting Bananas in the American Viceroyalties
2. Beyond the Fruit Bowl: Bananas Described and Painted in the American Viceroyalties
3. Most Delicate: Representations of Musaceae in Vicente Alban’s Quito Series Section II: Picturing Bananas, Picturing the Nation: Constructing National Identities During the Long Nineteenth Century
4. La mancha ‘e platano: the Representations of Plantains in Puerto Rico during the long 19th century
5. Dangerous to the Unacclimated: Bananas in U.S. investor Manuals on Cuba after the Spanish American War Section III: The Long Shadow of the Banana Empire: Traces of the United Fruit Company’s Photographic Archive
6. Archive Matter: Upheavals and Resurgent Photographic Archive
7. Making the (Archival) Violence of the United Fruit Company Visible Section IV: Unpeeling Tropical Myths: Race, Gender, and Spirituality in Banana Imagery (1940s?1980s)
8. The Social, the Spectral, and the Sensual: The Gastropoetics of the Banana in the Ofrendas of Olga Costa and Elena Climent
9. Points North: Signifying Capacities of Bananas in the Haitian Diaspora Section V: Beyond the Banana Republic: Resisting Authoritarianism and Violence From Central America to Brazil
10. Yes, we have Bananas: Art and Politics in the 1960s Brazil
11. Un-Stilling Still Lives: A History of Art and Bananas in the Work of Moises Barrios
12. Seeing Red in Yellow: The Gender Politics of the Blood Banana in Central American Art Section VI: Toxic Harvest: The Environmental Cost of Banana Plantocracies in Contemporary Art
13. The Forms of Extraction: Banana Plantations, Modernization and Social Unrest in Ecuador
14. Colonial Vision: Bananas, Gold, and the Extractive View in the Art of Leandro Katz and Maria Jose Argenzio Section VII: Embodied Politics and the Banana Imaginary: Challenging Neocolonial Fantasies in Contemporary Art
15. Bananas and Blackness: Contemporary Conflations in the work of Liliana Angulo Cortes and Gonzalo Fuenmayor
16. Platano Power: Subversion and Swagger in Latinx/e Art