Odebí, el cazador: Del tabú a la transgresión
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Keywords

Specific Literature
Cuban literature
Time Period
1900-1999
Subject Author
Hernández Espinosa
Eugenio (1937- )
Subject Work
Odebí
el cazador (1982)
Literary Genre
drama
Literary Theme
(treatment of) myth
Yoruba culture

How to Cite

Cordones-Cook, Juanamaría. “Odebí, El Cazador: Del Tabú a La transgresión”. Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 39, no. 2, Mar. 2006, pp. 53-65, https://doi.org/10.17161/latr.v39i2.1535.

Abstract

Odebí, el cazador (1982), a play by Eugenio Hernández Espinosa, dramatizes a patakin, the Afro-Cuban myth of santería of Ochosí de Mata. Following Wole Soyinka’s theories of dramatic creation based on the merging of Yoruba myths and rituals with Western Christian traditions, Hernández  Espinosa creates a hybrid play blending African and European linguistic, musical, dancing, and other cultural components. This essay takes into consideration a cluster of theories on ritual – Soyinka, Turner, Eliade y Campbell – as it explores the journey of a mythic hero in a metaphorical confrontation between man and cosmos, as symbolic representation of the conflict between the protagonist and the moral order and his destiny.( JCC, in Spanish)
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