Lydia Cabrera and the construction of an Afro-Cuban cultural identity

Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) collected oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is often viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this, proposing that her work is an alterna...

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Autor principal: Rodríguez-Mangual, Edna M. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press 2004.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Envisioning Cuba.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31842148*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The point of departure : Fernando Ortiz and Afro-Cuban studies
  • A disarticulation of the gaze : exploring modes of authority and representation in the rhetoric of El monte
  • The death of the king : between anthropology and fiction
  • The anthropologist's exile : nation and simulacrum.