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Afro-Cuban Tales

Afro-Cuban Tales

by Lydia Cabrera
Publication Date: 01/02/2005

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<div>As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In <i>Afro-Cuban Tales</i> this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. <p>Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western culture of the Americas. In this charmed realm of myth and legend, imaginative flights, and hard realities, Cabrera shows us a world turned upside down. In this domain guinea hens can make dour Asturians and the king of Spain dance; little fat cooking pots might prepare their own meals; the pope can send encyclicals about pumpkins; and officials can be defeated by the shrewdness of turtles. The first English translation of one of the most important writers on African culture in the Americas, the collection provides a fascinating view of how African traditions, myths, stories, and religions traveled to the New World&amp;#8212;of how, in their tales, Africans in the Americas created a New World all their own.</p> </div>
ISBN:
9780803215337
9780803215337
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Publication Date:
01-02-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
215.9x127mm
Weight:
0.29kg

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