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  • 16 - Lydia Cabrera and Afro-Caribbean Imaginaries

  • from Part III - Literary and Intellectual Culture in the Twentieth-Century Republic
  • Edited by Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas, Jacqueline Loss, University of Connecticut
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature
    Published online:
    31 August 2024
    Print publication:
    04 July 2024, pp 263-275

  • Summary

    This chapter unpacks the relationship between the ethnographic and literary work of Lydia Cabrera, which draws extensively on Black Cuban informants, and work by generators of Afro-Caribbean imaginaries, including Francophone writers Aimé Césaire and Suzanne Césaire and Anglophone writers Sylvia Wynter and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, in order to show that these writers’ distinct approaches to translation illuminate their diverse contributions to these imaginaries. After analyzing the roles of authorship and translation in Cabrera’s fiction and nonfiction, the chapter showcases her choices in translating Aimé Césaire and her impact on his and Suzanne Césaire’s translation of Léo Frobenius’s ethnographic work. These activities are then compared with the work of Wynter and Brathwaite, teasing out Cabrera’s contributions to dismantling the racial hierarchies produced by colonialism and slavery, while at the same time signaling ways in which she reproduced the communicative inequality of that legacy.