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Lydia Cabrera : between the sum and the parts

Title
Lydia Cabrera : between the sum and the parts / edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel ; illustrated by Lydia Cabrera.
Publication
  • New York, NY : Americas Society ; London : Koenig Books Ltd, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Marta, Karen
  • Rangel, Gabriela
  • Cabrera, Lydia
  • Cabrera, Lydia
  • Americas Society. Art Gallery, host institution
Description
121 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 21 cm
Summary
Ever the trickster, Lydia Cabrera blurred the lines between historian and storyteller, reality and fiction. Finding their initial context - and audience - in the avant-garde milieu of interwar Paris, Cabrera's stories based on Afro-Cuban myths and folktales continue to inform and inspire generations of artists, writers, and scholars. When the rise of fascism forced Cabrera to return to her native Cuba, she devoted herself to the preservation of Afro-Cuban cultures, a lifework that culminated in her scholarly and spiritual masterpiece, El Monte, in which the Cuban wilderness is brilliantly animated by the voices and rituals of the dead. The first English volume dedicated to her work, Lydia Cabrera: Between the Sum and the Parts introduces her substantial legacy to a new audience. Includes a facsimile of the illuminated manuscript "Arere Marekén" (1933), a collaboration between Lydia Cabrera and Alexandra Exter.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Hardcover in slipcase.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-121).
Exhibitions (note)
  • On the occasion of the exhibition "Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking" held at the Americas Society, New york, October 9, 2018 - January 12, 2019.
Call Number
Sc D 19-1045
ISBN
  • 9783960985037
  • 3960985037
LCCN
9783960985037
OCLC
1101105839
Title
Lydia Cabrera : between the sum and the parts / edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel ; illustrated by Lydia Cabrera.
Publisher
New York, NY : Americas Society ; London : Koenig Books Ltd, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-121).
Exhibitions
On the occasion of the exhibition "Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking" held at the Americas Society, New york, October 9, 2018 - January 12, 2019.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Marta, Karen, editor.
Rangel, Gabriela, editor.
Cabrera, Lydia, author, illustrator.
Container of (work): Cabrera, Lydia. Arere marekén.
Americas Society. Art Gallery, host institution.
Other Standard Identifier
9783960985037
Research Call Number
Sc D 19-1045
JQD 19-359
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