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A luminous history of Cubas most dynamic and defining rituals and the ever-improvisational character of Cuban culture In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzlez Echevarra peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls watching them at a distance, though thinking, fearing, that once I grew older I would have to participate in the whole event. Now an acclaimed scholar of Latin American literature, Gonzlez Echevarra returns to the rituals that defined his young life in Cuban Fiestas . Drawing from art, literature, film, and even the national sport of baseball, he vividly reveals the fiesta as a dynamic force of both destruction and renewal in the life of a people. Roberto Gonzlez Echevarra masterfully exposes the distinctive elements of the fiesta cubana that give depth and coherence to more than two centuries of Cuban cultural life. Reaching back to nineteenth-century traditions of Cuban art and literature, and augmenting them, in the twentieth, with the arts of narrative, the esthetic performances of sport and entertainment in nightclubs, on the baseball
- Author
- Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto
- Publisher
- New Haven: Yale University Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300167061
- Subjects
- Folklore, Anthropology, Humanities
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