Research Catalog

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

• Americas Society. Art Gallery, host institution. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92115910
• Cabrera, Lydia,
• Cabrera, Lydia.
• Marta, Karen,
• Rangel, Gabriela,

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.

Subject

• Art, Cuban > 20th century
• Cabrera, Lydia > Criticism and interpretation
• Cuban fiction > 20th century
• Women authors, Black > Cuba

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.

ISBN

3960985037

LCCN

9783960985037

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library