Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity write by Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate. This book was released on 2005-11-16. Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity available 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.
Afro-Cuban Short Stories by Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991)
Afro-Cuban Short Stories by Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Afro-Cuban Short Stories by Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) write by Lydia Cabrera. This book was released on 2008. Afro-Cuban Short Stories by Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Afro-Cuban Short Stories by Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991)
The Afro-Cuban Short Stories of Lydia Cabrera
The Afro-Cuban Short Stories of Lydia Cabrera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Afro-Cuban Short Stories of Lydia Cabrera write by Gladys Amor. This book was released on 1960. The Afro-Cuban Short Stories of Lydia Cabrera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Sacred Language of the Abakuá
The Sacred Language of the Abakuá - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sacred Language of the Abakuá write by Lydia Cabrera. This book was released on 2020-12-28. The Sacred Language of the Abakuá available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera’s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider’s” view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera’s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba’s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera’s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.
Afro-Cuban Myths
Afro-Cuban Myths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Afro-Cuban Myths write by Rómulo Lachatañeré. This book was released on 2005. Afro-Cuban Myths available 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.
