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Cuentos Negros De Cuba/ Black Tales From Cuba (Coleccion Del Chichereku) (Spanish Edition)

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Lydia Cabrera's first book (written in the 1930s) is an important, essential foundation for any understanding of Afro-Cuban culture in its many manifestations -- religion, language, music, art. Cabrera was one of the most important Cuban scholars/intellectuals of the 20th century -- like so many others she spent much of her life in exile from her native land after 1959. One day, perhaps soon, she will be honored in Cuba as she deserves, as the pioneer and the sensitive transcriber of a precariously poised but precious cultural tradition.

Lydia Cabrera, ademas de gustarle la antropologia, era una excelente escritora. Pocos como ella logran narrar un cuento que te despierte emociones con pocas palabras. Dicen que aprendio en Paris este modo de escritura