{"product_id":"afrocuban-tales-9780803264380","title":"AfroCuban Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAs much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In \u003ci\u003eAfro-Cuban Tales\u003c\/i\u003e this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. \u003cp\u003eHere readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western culture of the Americas. In this charmed realm of myth and legend, imaginative flights, and hard realities, Cabrera shows us a world turned upside down. In this domain guinea hens can make dour Asturians and the king of Spain dance; little fat cooking pots might prepare their own meals; the pope can send encyclicals about pumpkins; and officials can be defeated by the shrewdness of tur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A marvelous book, with emphasis on marvel as magical. No wonder Cabrera is seen as one of the writers who planted the seed for magical realism.\"-Danilo H. Figueredo, Multicultural Review -- Danilo H. Figueredo Multicultural Review \"It could be argued that the entire school of Latin American 'Magic Realism' begins with Cabrera's Afro-Cuban Tales.\"-Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Review \"Cabrera's stories reflect a real moment in Cuban history that, in turn, illuminates the past and informs the future.\"-Norman Weinstein, Journal of American Folklore 123 -- Norman Weinstein Journal of American Folklore 123\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405267378519,"sku":"9780803264380","price":17.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803264380.jpg?v=1730489349","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/afrocuban-tales-9780803264380","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}