Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam
Ph.D. This dissertation analyzes the representation of Afro-Cuban subjects and cultures in the works of Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam. The exploration of the Afro-Cuban religious universe and its articulation of the experience of being black in Cuba allowed Cabrera and Lam to challenge North Atlanti...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Other Authors: | , |
Format: | Thesis |
Language: | Spanish |
Published: |
Georgetown University
2021
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1062629 |
id |
ftgeorgetownuniv:oai:repository.library.georgetown.edu:10822/1062629 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftgeorgetownuniv:oai:repository.library.georgetown.edu:10822/1062629 2023-10-09T21:54:11+02:00 Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam (Re)viewing Afrocubanism: Dialogue and Interdisciplinarity in Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam Amaya Ortega, Oscar Fernando Rappaport, Joanne Kirkpatrick , Gwen 2021 PDF 191 leaves http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1062629 es spa Georgetown University http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1062629 orcid:0000-0002-4840-3373 Georgetown University-Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Spanish & Portuguese Art History Black Studies Caribbean Studies Cultural Anthropology Lydia Cabrera Wifredo Lam Caribbean Area -- Research Ethnology -- Research Art -- History Ethnic studies thesis 2021 ftgeorgetownuniv 2023-09-12T20:11:04Z Ph.D. This dissertation analyzes the representation of Afro-Cuban subjects and cultures in the works of Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam. The exploration of the Afro-Cuban religious universe and its articulation of the experience of being black in Cuba allowed Cabrera and Lam to challenge North Atlantic discourses of race through the recognition and re-creation of the symbolic apparatus of the Afro-Cuban subject as an original, and cultural being. By examining how their intersectional works have impacted and reshaped the understandings of Afro-Cuban cultures, I propose that Cabrera and Lam reconceptualize race relations in the island by positioning the black subject at the core of the race and culture debate in Cuba.Taking this into account, this work delves into their particular relationship as individuals and intellectuals, recreating and reconstructing a dialogue from their works, personal correspondence, as well as the context in which they participated in Cuba during the 1940’s and 1950’s. In doing so, this dissertation argues that the works of the painter and the ethnographer include and experiment with logics and epistemologies of Afro-Cuban religions, in particular santeria, or regla de Ocha-Ifá. I specifically analyze how both intellectuals incorporate the image and logic of the circle in their works, as an allegory and structure of the conflict between order and chaos, as well as the natural cycle of life and death. In the case of Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam, the integration of elements of the Afro-Cuban worldview and epistemology into their narratives and visual vocabulary reveals that for both intellectuals, Afro-Cuban religions represent valid bodies of knowledge. This dissertation also emphasizes in the experience of both Lam and Cabrera in the fieldwork and their ethnographic research as methods of working and approaching Afro-Cuban religions, substantial tools in the professional and personal experience of both intellectuals in their understanding of the beliefs and practices of Afro-Cuba ... Thesis North Atlantic Georgetown University: DigitalGeorgetown |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Georgetown University: DigitalGeorgetown |
op_collection_id |
ftgeorgetownuniv |
language |
Spanish |
topic |
Art History Black Studies Caribbean Studies Cultural Anthropology Lydia Cabrera Wifredo Lam Caribbean Area -- Research Ethnology -- Research Art -- History Ethnic studies |
spellingShingle |
Art History Black Studies Caribbean Studies Cultural Anthropology Lydia Cabrera Wifredo Lam Caribbean Area -- Research Ethnology -- Research Art -- History Ethnic studies Amaya Ortega, Oscar Fernando Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam |
topic_facet |
Art History Black Studies Caribbean Studies Cultural Anthropology Lydia Cabrera Wifredo Lam Caribbean Area -- Research Ethnology -- Research Art -- History Ethnic studies |
description |
Ph.D. This dissertation analyzes the representation of Afro-Cuban subjects and cultures in the works of Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam. The exploration of the Afro-Cuban religious universe and its articulation of the experience of being black in Cuba allowed Cabrera and Lam to challenge North Atlantic discourses of race through the recognition and re-creation of the symbolic apparatus of the Afro-Cuban subject as an original, and cultural being. By examining how their intersectional works have impacted and reshaped the understandings of Afro-Cuban cultures, I propose that Cabrera and Lam reconceptualize race relations in the island by positioning the black subject at the core of the race and culture debate in Cuba.Taking this into account, this work delves into their particular relationship as individuals and intellectuals, recreating and reconstructing a dialogue from their works, personal correspondence, as well as the context in which they participated in Cuba during the 1940’s and 1950’s. In doing so, this dissertation argues that the works of the painter and the ethnographer include and experiment with logics and epistemologies of Afro-Cuban religions, in particular santeria, or regla de Ocha-Ifá. I specifically analyze how both intellectuals incorporate the image and logic of the circle in their works, as an allegory and structure of the conflict between order and chaos, as well as the natural cycle of life and death. In the case of Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam, the integration of elements of the Afro-Cuban worldview and epistemology into their narratives and visual vocabulary reveals that for both intellectuals, Afro-Cuban religions represent valid bodies of knowledge. This dissertation also emphasizes in the experience of both Lam and Cabrera in the fieldwork and their ethnographic research as methods of working and approaching Afro-Cuban religions, substantial tools in the professional and personal experience of both intellectuals in their understanding of the beliefs and practices of Afro-Cuba ... |
author2 |
Rappaport, Joanne Kirkpatrick , Gwen |
format |
Thesis |
author |
Amaya Ortega, Oscar Fernando |
author_facet |
Amaya Ortega, Oscar Fernando |
author_sort |
Amaya Ortega, Oscar Fernando |
title |
Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam |
title_short |
Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam |
title_full |
Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam |
title_fullStr |
Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam |
title_full_unstemmed |
Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam |
title_sort |
revisiones de lo afrocubano: diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en lydia cabrera y wifredo lam |
publisher |
Georgetown University |
publishDate |
2021 |
url |
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1062629 |
genre |
North Atlantic |
genre_facet |
North Atlantic |
op_source |
Georgetown University-Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Spanish & Portuguese |
op_relation |
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1062629 orcid:0000-0002-4840-3373 |
_version_ |
1779317678892122112 |