Biografía de un cimarrón
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Biografía de un cimarrón
（Hispanic texts）
Manchester University Press, 2010
- : pbk.
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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. -- .
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction and notes on edition
*?Quien es el Cimarron?
*La esclavitud
*La abolicion de la esclavitud
*La Guerra de Independencia
*Testimonio
Bibliography
Timeline of slavery, Cuban history, and the life of Esteban Montejo
*Biografia de un Cimarron*
*Plate: photograph of Esteban Montejo
*Introduccion
*La esclavitud
*La vida en los barracones
*La vida en el monte
*La abolicion de la esclavitud
*La vida en los ingenios
*La Guerra de Independencia
*La vida durante la guerra
*Notas
*Glosario
Temas de debate y discusion
Selected vocabulary -- .
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