Afro-Cuban short stories by Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991)

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Afro-Cuban short stories by Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991)

selected, annotated, and translated by Mariela A. Gutiérrez ; with a foreword by Beatriz Varela

E. Mellen Press, c2008

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An annotated English translation of forty short stories.

Table of Contents

  • Black Short Stories from Cuba (Cuentos negros de Cuba)
  • Cheggue
  • Eya
  • Walo-Wila
  • Two Queens
  • The Hill Named Mambiala
  • Tatabisaco
  • Arere Mareken
  • The Mire of the Almendares River
  • Turtle's Horse
  • The Certificate of Liberty
  • The Mutes
  • The Guardian Toad
  • Why...? (Por que...?)
  • There Are Men of Many Colours
  • The Billy Goat Stinks
  • Obbara Lies But Does Not Lie
  • Women Pay Tribute to the Dagame Tree
  • Cotton Blinds the Birds
  • Kanakana, the Buzzard, is Sacred, and Iroko, the Ceiba, is Divine
  • Susudamba Doesn't Show Herself by Day
  • The Flat Noses of the Blacks Are Made of Clay
  • Ayapa: Turtle Tales (Ayapa: cuentos de Jicotea)
  • Life or Death
  • Turtle, One Fine Day, Asked the Sun
  • Jicotea's Vengeance
  • Ncharriri
  • Iru Aye
  • The Yam Patch Thief
  • The Branch on the Wall
  • Jicotea and the Guira Tree No One Planted
  • In the Enamoured River.

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