by Lydia Cabrera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422654995
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«Cuentos negros de Cuba» is a collection of Afro-Cuban stories by Lydia Cabrera, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (178 pages, in Spanish).
The work brings together stories from the Afro-Cuban oral tradition of the early 20th century where the real and the supernatural coexist: gods and mortals, cunning animals, objects that come to life and challenges to the powerful. Cabrera, a narrator and ethnographer, shows how African beliefs took root in Cuba and were transformed into an imagination full of irony.
Originally published in 1936, this 1996 edition belongs to the Maestros Modernos Hispánicos collection, directed by Eduardo Mendoza, within Opera Mundi.
For readers interested in Afro-Cuban mythology, folklore and short narrative of oral tradition.
