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Author | : Lydia Cabrera |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803264380 |
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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 Afro-Cuban Tales 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. 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?of how, in their tales, Africans in the Americas created a New World all their own.
Author | : ... Rose Teresa Amor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rómulo Lachatañeré |
Publisher | : Markus Wiener Publishers |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Afro-Cuban Myths Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
African cults and religions enrich all aspects of Cuba's social, cultural and everyday life, and encompass all ethnic and social groups. Politics, art, and civil events such as weddings, funerals, festivals and carnivals all possess distinctly Afro-Cuban characteristics. Miguel Barnet provides a concise guide to the various traditions and branches of Afro-Cuban religions. He distinguishes between the two most important cult forms - the Regla de Ocha (Santeria), which promotes worship of the Oshira (gods), and the traditional oracles that originated in the old Yoruba city of lle-lfe', which promote a more animistic worldview. Africans who were brought to Cuba as slaves had to recreate their old traditions in their new Caribbean context. As their African heritage collided with Catholicism and with Native American and European traditions, certain African gods and traditions became more prominent while others lost their significance in the new Afro-Cuban culture. This book, the first systematic overview of the syncretization of the gods of African origin with Catholic saints, introduces the reader to a little-known side of Cuban culture.
Author | : Eugenio Matibag |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2018-02-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1947372610 |
Download Afro-Cuban Religious Experience Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
Author | : Lydia Cabrera |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Afro-Cuban Short Stories by Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991)
Author | : Rose Teresa Amor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Black |
ISBN | : |
Download Afro-Cuban Folk Tales as Incorporated Into the Literary Tradition of Cuba Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2005-11-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0807876283 |
Download Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, who initiated the study of Afro-Cubans and the concept of transculturation. Here, Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this perspective, proposing that Cabrera's work offers an alternative to the hegemonizing national myth of Cuba articulated by Ortiz and others. Rodriguez-Mangual examines Cabrera's ethnographic essays and short stories in context. By blurring fact and fiction, anthropology and literature, Cabrera defied the scientific discourse used by other anthropologists. She wrote of Afro-Cubans not as objects but as subjects, and in her writings, whiteness, instead of blackness, is gazed upon as the "other." As Rodriguez-Mangual demonstrates, Cabrera rewrote the history of Cuba and its culture through imaginative means, calling into question the empirical basis of anthropology and placing Afro-Cuban contributions at the center of the literature that describes the Cuban nation and its national identity.
Author | : Salvador Bueno |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Cuban Legends Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of Cuban legends aims to bring readers the best of a time-honoured tradition of storytelling in Cuba. The tales are retold by a diverse group of Cuban literary figures, their stories embracing a broad spectrum of Cuban history from the remote past to the modern era.
Author | : Rafael Ocasio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813041643 |
Download Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A broad examination of representations of Afro-Cuban religious themes in literature and popular arts, focusing on white authors of Costumbrismo literature represented black culture.
Author | : María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780822325932 |
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Assisted by her daughter, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, the author recounts her life as a black woman struggling with prejudice and change in Cuba over the span of 90 years. Known as "Reyita", Maria de Los Reyes Castillo Bueno starts her story with the abduction of her grandmother by slave traders and shares her own experiences as a mother, laborer, and revolutionary.