Editing Lydia Cabrera (section)

==Main work themes==
[[File:Lidia cabrera.JPG|thumb|Lydia Cabrera]]
Her career spanned decades before the [[Revolution]], as well as many years after the revolution in Cuba. Although she was never schooled in [[anthropology]], she takes a very anthropological approach to studying her subject matter. The main theme in her work is the focus on to the once-marginalized Afro-Cubans, giving them a respectable identity. Through the use of imagery and storytelling in her work, she seeks to retell the history of the Cuban people through the Afro-Cuban lens.<ref>"Lydia Cabrera," 322.</ref> Generally, her work blurs the line between what society has deemed as "fact" and "fiction."<ref>Rodríguez-Mangual, E. "Introduction," 4.</ref> She attempts to pose ideas and theories that force one to question what they have been told. In Afro-Cuban Tales (''Cuentos Negros De Cuba'') she writes, "They dance when they're born, they dance when they die, they dance for killings. They celebrate everything!" (Cabrera 67). Here, she is connecting Afro-Cuban tales with African rituals because it is important to celebrate birth, passage to adulthood, marriage, and death.