Afro Cuban Tales
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Afro Cuban Tales
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Author : Lydia Cabrera
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Afro Cuban Tales written by Lydia Cabrera and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
Afro Cuban Short Stories By Lydia Cabrera 1900 1991
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Author : Lydia Cabrera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Afro Cuban Short Stories By Lydia Cabrera 1900 1991 written by Lydia Cabrera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
Afro-Cuban Short Stories by Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991)
Lydia Cabrera And The Construction Of An Afro Cuban Cultural Identity
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Author : Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2005-11-16
Lydia Cabrera And The Construction Of An Afro Cuban Cultural Identity written by Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Desde Los Vientos De Manguito
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Author : Elvia Pérez Nápoles
language : en
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 2004-09-30
Desde Los Vientos De Manguito written by Elvia Pérez Nápoles and has been published by Libraries Unlimited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Discusses the origins of Cuban folklore and presents traditional children's games, recipes, and tales, including stories from the country, Afro-Cuban traditions, and tales of animals and fantastic creatures.
An Ethnological Interpretation Of The Afro Cuban World Of Lydia Cabrera 1900 1991
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Author : Mariela Gutiérrez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
An Ethnological Interpretation Of The Afro Cuban World Of Lydia Cabrera 1900 1991 written by Mariela Gutiérrez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
Afro Cuban Religious Experience
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Author : Eugenio Matibag
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2018-02-26
Afro Cuban Religious Experience written by Eugenio Matibag and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Afro Cuban Myths
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Author : Rómulo Lachatañeré
language : en
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Release Date : 2005
Afro Cuban Myths written by Rómulo Lachatañeré and has been published by Markus Wiener Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
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.
Voices Out Of Africa In Twentieth Century Spanish Caribbean Literature
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Author : Julia Cuervo Hewitt
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2009
Voices Out Of Africa In Twentieth Century Spanish Caribbean Literature written by Julia Cuervo Hewitt and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Hewitt (Spanish and Portuguese, Pennsylvania State U.) explores the representation of Africa and "Afro-Caribbean-ness" in Spanish Caribbean literature of the 20th century. Her main argument "is that the literary representation of Africa and "Africanness," meaning practices, belief systems, music, art, myths, popular knowledge, in Spanish-speaking Caribbean societies, constructs a self-referential discourse in which Africa and African "things" shift to a Caribbean landscape as the site of the (M)Other." Or, in other words, these representations imaginatively rescue and simultaneously construct a "Caribbean cultural imaginary conceived as the Other within that associates Africa with a cultural womb." Among the texts she explores are Fernando Ortiz's interpretations of the "Black Carnival" in Cuba, the early Afro-Cuban poems of Alejo Carpentier, the Afro-Cuban stories of Lydia Cabrera, a number of literary representations of the figure of the runaway slave, and two works by Puerto Rican novelist Edgardo Rodiguez Julia.
El Monte
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Author : Lydia Cabrera
language : es
Publisher: RUTH
Release Date : 2022-12-07
El Monte written by Lydia Cabrera and has been published by RUTH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-07 with Social Science categories.
Fruto de largos años de trabajo, El Monte acopia una singular indagación en cuanto a la magia, las leyendas, las tradiciones y el comportamiento místico y mental del pueblo cubano ante los cultos religiosos de origen afro. Se evoca lo que significa el monte para el negro: un lugar sagrado, engendrador de la vida y morada de sus divinidades ancestrales; pero también el sitio que guarda poderes inimaginables, capaces de ocasionar el más terrible de los maleficios.
Archives Of Conjure
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Author : Solimar Otero
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-24
Archives Of Conjure written by Solimar Otero and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Religion categories.
In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship.