Biography of a Runaway Slave: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Barnet Miguel
Biography of a Runaway Slave: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Barnet Miguel Fiftieth Anniversary EditionOriginally published in 1966, Miguel Barnet's Biography of a Runaway Slave provides the written…
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Biography of a Runaway Slave: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Barnet Miguel
Fiftieth Anniversary EditionOriginally published in 1966, Miguel Barnet's Biography of a Runaway Slave provides the written history of the life of Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as a fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier fighting against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence. Barnet recorded his interviews with the 103-year-old Montejo at the onset of the Cuban Revolution. A new introduction by one of the most preeminent Afro-Hispanic scholars, William Luis, situates Barnet's ethnographic strategy and lyrical narrative style as foundational for the tradition of testimonial fiction in Latin American literature.
The book serves as an important contribution to the archive of black experience in Cuba and as a This insurgent's history allows the reader into the folklore and cultural history of Afro-Cubans before and after the abolition of slavery.