Guillén, Nicolás - Jean A. Purchas-Tulloch (essay date 1985-86)
Jean A. Purchas-Tulloch (essay date 1985-86)
SOURCE: "The Yoruban-Cuban Aesthetic, Nicolas Guillen's Poetic Expressions: A Paradigm," in Current Bibliography on African Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1985-86, pp. 301-7.
[In the essay below, Purchas-Tulloch examines African folkloric, musical, and religious elements in Guillén's poetry.]
The transplantation of the African slave to the Americas, and more specifically, Cuba, was to result in the offshoot of a folklore tradition prolific in African elements, forming an amalgam with the Cuban. Nicolás Guillén's Afro-Cuban grounding stems from this transplantation, and his work has been singled out here as a tribute to his fifty plus years of dedication to this field. His work, replete with Afro-Cuban folkloric elements, is representative of a twentieth-century Afro-centric trend in the arts.
The role of folklore in a provincial and rustic society is incomprehensible, illogical, and even...
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