Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Identity

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 480-485
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Lydia Cabrera

El cosmos de Lydia Cabrera: Dioses, animales y hombres

1992 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
William L. Siemens ◽  
Mariela Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Lydia Cabrera

Lydia Cabrera

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (52) ◽  
pp. 6-6
Author(s):  
Alfred Mac Adam
Keyword(s):  
Lydia Cabrera

Afrocubanismo

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah Rodriguez Drissi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Nicolas Guillen ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Rhythm And Blues ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Lydia Cabrera

Afrocubanismo constitutes an ideological shift in the valuation of Afro-Cuban forms of cultural expression and their acceptance on a national scale. From about 1927 through to the late 1930s, Afrocubanismo influenced all domains of élitist and popular art. At a time of fundamental changes in artistic expression, Afrocubanismo was partly nourished by international aesthetic trends in Madrid, Paris, and New York. A new interest in the non-commercial expression of Afro-Cubans inspired numerous works, from the ethnographic writing of Lydia Cabrera to the paintings of Eduardo Abela, Jaime Valls, and Wifredo Lam. The literary works of Alejo Carpentier and Nicolás Guillén belong to this Afro-Cuban moment, as do the musical theatre of Ernesto Lecuona and the symphonic compositions of Amadeo Roldán. Afrocubanismo involved, among other things, exchanges between national and transnational figures and forms of expression that included the influence of Cuban music on American jazz, Latin jazz, and rhythm and blues. This exchange culminated in the long relationship between Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén and North American poet Langston Hughes.

Lydia Cabrera: A pioneer

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (52) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Author(s):  
Isabel Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Lydia Cabrera

Lo ancestral africano en la narrativa de Lydia Cabrera

Hispania ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Julio Jimenez ◽  
Rosa Valdes-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Lydia Cabrera

scholarly journals Creating a Literary Bond: Lydia Cabrera and Toni Morrison

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Christiana Succar
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Lydia Cabrera

Pioneros de la etnografía afrocubana. Fernando Ortiz, Rómulo Lachatañeré y Lydia Cabrera

Hispania ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Luis A. Jiménez ◽  
Jorge Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Fernando Ortiz ◽  
Lydia Cabrera

The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-368
Author(s):  
Lydia Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
West African ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Lydia Cabrera ◽  
African Institution

This chapter is a translation of the introduction and over 6,000 entries of Abakuá ritual jargon created by Lydia Cabrera from 1938–1959 in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba. Many entries have new commentaries by living Abakuá specialists to clarify obscure issues in the original material. The entries refer to the foundation of Abakuá in West Africa centuries ago, with reference to historical figures in the port of Calabar. They also refer to important Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the adaptation of this West African institution to the Caribbean context.

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