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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 125–137.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Emily A. Maguire In 1943, Cuban writer Lydia Cabrera published a Spanish translation of Aimé Césaire's poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land with illustrations by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. The translation introduced the concept of Négritude to a Cuban and Spanish-language readership...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 133–143.
Published: 01 November 2022
... work can no longer be seen as a given; the standards for that work have to grow out of a shared understanding of what we are translating and for whom, and how much should be left untranslated. In 1956 the poet and scholar Francisco Manrique Cabrera began a lifelong campaign to create a living...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 205–213.
Published: 01 September 2004
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the anglophone Trinidad and Tobago there is Earl Lovelace’s Th e Dragon Can’t Dance,
Small Axe 16, September 2004: pp. 205–213
ISSN 0799-0537
from hispanophone prerevolutionary Cuba there is Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres
tristes tigres, and from Martinique is Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 214–221.
Published: 01 September 2004
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the anglophone Trinidad and Tobago there is Earl Lovelace’s Th e Dragon Can’t Dance,
Small Axe 16, September 2004: pp. 205–213
ISSN 0799-0537
from hispanophone prerevolutionary Cuba there is Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres
tristes tigres, and from Martinique is Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 222–227.
Published: 01 September 2004
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the anglophone Trinidad and Tobago there is Earl Lovelace’s Th e Dragon Can’t Dance,
Small Axe 16, September 2004: pp. 205–213
ISSN 0799-0537
from hispanophone prerevolutionary Cuba there is Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres
tristes tigres, and from Martinique is Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 164–174.
Published: 01 March 2016
...?” 17 Ibid. 16 Ibid. 15 Barthes, Image-Music-Text , 188. 14 Ibid., 62. 13 Infante, Three Trapped Tigers , 62–63. 12 Ibid., 182. 11 Roland Barthes, Image-Music-Text , trans. Stephen Heath (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 188. 10 G. Cabrera Infante...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 85–88.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the context of a broader Martinican literary history—one that implicates Ina's parents, Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, and their own negotiation of the border between popular and elite cultural spheres. As Emily A. Maguire discusses in “Two Returns to the Native Land: Lydia Cabrera Translates Aimé Césaire...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 24–44.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and sounds associated with an African and (to a lesser extent) Taino ancestry. Makandal as a symbol for the island has been interrogated by Fernando Cabrera, María del Carmen Prosdocimi de Rivera, Néstor E. Rodríguez, and Maria Cristina Fumagalli. Cabrera asserts that Rueda’s text magnifies a larger insular...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 123–137.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in Cuba, since many writers and artists came together in support of the Cuban Revolution. During this period, Boom writers Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante wrote and published their most important works. 1 But as the political...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 169–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
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and religious interviews and documentation. Imogene Kennedy’s discourses on kumina
are outstanding examples of such texts.⁶ ? ese had been preceded by M. G. Smith’s
Dark Puritan: e Life and Work of Norman Paul.⁷ Lydia Cabrera’s exegeses on Afro-
Cuban religions,⁸ and Serge Bramly’s Macumba...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 142–150.
Published: 01 July 2021
... debemos la noción de Tercer Mundo, tan popular en nuestros días. La primera edición extranjera del Cuaderno se produjo en la Isla de Cuba, traducido por la antropóloga Lydia Cabrera e ilustrada por el extraordinario pintor Wifredo Lam. Encontré un ejemplar de la edición, caminando por los portales de la...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Cabrera—envisioned the African elements as directly constituted in a nationalist Cuban ethos, Ortiz’s earlier text proposed the decoupling of the African portion from Cuban identity if the island was to achieve a desired occidentalist civilization. 46 Despite the eventual celebration of the works...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Carpentier, La ciudad de las columnas (Havana: Instituto del Libro, 1998); Joseph Hergesheimer, San Cristóbal de la
Habana (New York: Knopf, 1920), 13. San Cristóbal de la Habana is something of an underground and out-of-print classic,
admired by William Faulkner, G. Cabrera Infante...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
... for Lydia Cabrera’s translation of Césaire’s text, retitled Retorno al país natal , mark the beginning of a series of sustained conversations and collaborations between Lam and Césaire over four decades. 1 Both had “at last found a companion soul” when they met by chance in 1941 during Lam’s stopover...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 99–109.
Published: 01 March 2017
... wisdom, is complemented by ethnographical and fictional works, such of those of Lydia Cabrera. Morera is interested in presenting the complex character of this animal in the Kongo cultural tradition, in which despite being a scavenger it is still able to show kindness and compassion. She focuses...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and centuries. 36 See Sylvia Wynter, The Hills of Hebron (1962; repr., Essex: Longman, 1984), and “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation,” Savacou 5 (1971): 95–102; Lydia Cabrera, El monte (1953; repr., Cuba: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2010); José Francisco Bonó, El Montero (1856; repr., Santo...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
... and translated into standard Spanish by Lydia Cabrera. The interest in folk culture in general and the art of the tale in particular reappears in the 1980s within the créolité movement. Translations of creole songs, proverbs, direct discourse, and expressions now appear in Martinican novels. Moreover...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 199–210.
Published: 01 March 2017
... assessments are backed up by any number of visual supports. One could cite, for example, the artwork that Lam contributed to Lydia Cabrera's translation for the 1943 Cuban edition of Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and the cosigned portfolio titled Annonciation that features poems by Césaire...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
Published: 01 July 2018
... siglo XIX,” Ecos 1, no. 2 (1993): 25–43; and De esclavos a campesinos: Vida rural en Santo Domingo colonial (Santo Domingo: Archivo General de la Nación, 2011). I am familiar, but not in direct conversation, with Lydia Cabrera’s influential study of Afro-Cuban belief systems and folk stories in El...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., everything; against the Revolution, nothing”). The speech responded to the controversy over the censorship of the 1961 film P.M. , a short documentary by Orlando Jiménez Leal and Sabá Cabrera Infante on Afro-Cuban nightlife that, in its depiction of drunkenness and dancing in largely segregated social...
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