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Lydia Cabrera (19001991), an upperclass 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 brotherinlaw, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, who initiated the study of AfroCubans and the concept of transculturation. Here, Edna RodriguezMangual challenges this perspective, proposing that Cabrera's work offers an alternative to the hegemonizing national myth of Cuba articulated by Ortiz and others.RodriguezMangual 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 AfroCubans not as objects but as subjects, and in her writings, whiteness, instead of blackness, is gazed upon as the 'other.' As RodriguezMangual demonstrates, Cabrera rewrote the history of Cuba and its culture through imaginative means, calling into question the empirical basis of anthropology and placing AfroCuban contributions at the center of the literature that describes the Cuban nation and its national identity.
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