Biografía de un cimarrón: By Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo (Hispanic Texts)

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This ‘Biography of a runaway slave’ is arguably the most productive-known book to have been written and published in revolutionary Cuba, being the testimonial narrative of Esteban Montejo, a former slave, runaway, and soldier within the Cuban wars of independence. The text is the collaboration between ethnographer Miguel Barnet and Montejo, the results 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 within 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 within the new republic.

Reflecting the growing interest in Latin American and Cuban Studies, this student edition includes your entire text in Spanish, notes in English, a time-line of Cuban history and themes for debate and discussion. The extensive introduction specializes in three main areas: an overview of Cuban history featuring slavery, wars of independence and the brand new republic; an overview of the genre of the testimonial narrative because it emerged as crucial literary style in revolutionary Cuba; and an analysis of the connection between the Cuban Revolution and the publication of the text. There could also be an extensive bibliography.

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