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“Black Tales of Cuba” by Lydia Cabrera

“In this work the author transcribes and collects for sheer delight the set of black legends of Havana. These are Afro-Cuban stories that, although full of fantasy, are not only religious. Most are animal fables. Others are of human characters in which mythology enters secondarily.”

Extracted from the back cover.

See also:

http://www.mauroyberra.cl/contenido/Bartolome/columnaramona/archivos/Lydia%20Cabrera.pdf

http://www.circulodeculturapanamericano.org/bibliografia_sub_pgs/LYDIACABRERA.htm

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Cabrera

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Black stories from Cuba / Lydia Cabrera; prologue by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. — Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, DL 1996. — 178 p. ; 22cm — (Universal Library. Modern Hispanic Masters).

DL B 613-1996—ISBN 84-226-5499-7

PQ 7389.C22 C8 1996

R. 76718