Title
Afrocuban Tales,New
Delivery time: 8-12 business days (International)
As Much A Storyteller As An Ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera Was Captivated By A Strange And Magical New World Revealed To Her By Her Afrocuban Friends In Early Twentiethcentury Havana. In Afrocuban Tales This World Comes To Teeming Life, Introducing Englishspeaking 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 Worldof How, In Their Tales, Africans In The Americas Created A New World All Their Own.
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