Hacia una performatividad de la cultura afrocubana: música y religión en la narrativa de Lydia Cabrera

The present article considers the narrative of Lydia Cabrera (La Habana 1900-Miami1991) from the point of view of the generic hybridization that her double work aspect ‒literary and ethnological ones‒ produces. In particular, the analysis will focus on the appropriation of Afro-Cuban music and the Yoruba religion by literary creation; the fertile interaction produced by this process mobilizes narrative prose and highlights its performative aspect. It will be token into account short stories that belong to the volumes Cuentos negros de Cuba (1940), Por qué…cuentos negros de Cuba (1948) y Ayapá: cuentos de Jicotea (1971).