Biografía de un cimarrón / Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo ; edited with an introduction, critical analysis, notes and vocabulary by William Rowlandson.

Author
Montejo, Esteban, 1860-1973 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
  • Spanish
  • English
Published/​Created
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Description
viii, 200 pages : portrait ; 20 cm.

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    Hispanic texts [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "This Biography of a runaway slave is arguably the best-known book to have been written and published in revolutionary Cuba, being the testimonial narrative of Esteban Montejo, a former slave, runaway, and soldier in the Cuban wars of independence. The text is the collaboration between ethnographer Miguel Barnet and Montejo, the result of three years of tape-recorded interviews, transcribed, edited and annotated by Barnet. Montejo provides a first-hand account of slavery in nineteenth-century Cuba - the language, religion, music, and customs - and describes life in the sugar plantations and mills and as a runaway slave. Montejo's text also covers key historical moments, from slavery to Abolition, the Ten Years War, the Spanish American War, and US intervention in the new republic. Reflecting the growing interest in Latin American and Cuban Studies, this student edition includes the complete text in Spanish, notes in English, a time-line of Cuban history and themes for debate and discussion. The extensive introduction focuses on three main areas: an overview of Cuban history featuring slavery, wars of independence and the new republic; an overview of the genre of the testimonial narrative as it emerged as an important literary style in revolutionary Cuba; and an analysis of the relationship between the Cuban Revolution and the publication of the text. There is also an extensive bibliography."--Amazon.com.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-56).
    Language note
    Analysis in English; text in Spanish.
    ISBN
    • 9780719080913 ((pbk.))
    • 0719080916 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2010280062
    OCLC
    528397760
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