Detalles del libro
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.
- Autor/a Lydia Cabrera
- ISBN13 9780803264380
- ISBN10 0803264380
- Páginas 169
- Año de Edición 2004
- Fecha de publicación 01/01/2004
- Idioma Alemán, Francés
Reseñas y valoraciones
Afro-Cuban Tales (Alemán, Francés)
- De
- Lydia Cabrera
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- Bison Books (2004)
- 9780803264380



