The autobiography of a runaway slave,

The recorded memoirs of a 105-year-old Cuban black ex-slave, this book includes a bibliographical essay, intended to enable readers and students to study the Cuban historical literary and social background, and to put the book into the wider contest of other life-histories.

BARNET, MIGUEL

Pantheon

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Translated from the Spanish by W. Nick Hill Introduction by William Luis Originally 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. 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. Barnet recorded his interviews with the 103-year-old Montejo at the onset of the Cuban Revolution. This insurgent’s history allows the reader into the folklore and cultural history of Afro-Cubans before and after the abolition of slavery. The book serves as an important contribution to the archive of black experience in Cuba and as a reminder of the many ways that the present continues to echo the past.

Biography of a Runaway Slave: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Curbstone Books 2

A portrait of the glamorous and energetic world of Havana, Cuba, during the 1920s and 1930s centers around the popular nightspot, the Alhambra Theater, and Rachel, the dazzling star of a troupe of rumberos, rhumba dancers, that performs there.

Rachel's Song

Literature & Fiction

United States

Curbstone Books

Afro-Cuban Religions

Rather than focusing on the theology of African religions transplanted to Cuba by slaves, the director of Havana's Fernando Ortiz Foundation explores the origins, myths, and the practices of Santerfa (Regla de Ocha) and the Congo religions (Regla de Palo Monte). He also relates his field research in Nigeria on Yoruba traditions. Includes maps of principal sites of these sects in modern Cuba; b&w photos of shrines, deities, devotees, dances, and instruments; and diagrams of magic signs. Translated from the Spanish ( Cultos afrocubanos ). Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

History

Americas

Markus Wiener Publishers

African-derived religions enrich all aspects of Cuba's social, cultural, and everyday life, and encompass all ethnic and social groups. This work discusses the roles of music and dance as forms of Cuban religious expression and describes the specific instruments and symbols they employ.

Miguel Barnet's A True Story is based on the life of Julián Mesa, a Cuban living in New York City. The novel spans the years between the 1930s to the 1980s as the protagonist moves from Cuba to the US. Throughout the novel Julián, a building supervisor in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, recounts his life beginning with his early childhood years in the Cuban countryside and ending on the brink of tears as he dreams about an island which he dreams of seeing again. His account tells of the brutal work of the Cuban peasant in the sugarcane fields as well as the oppressive unemployment situation in Havana during the 1930s and 40s. Arriving in New York before the triumph of the Revolution in search of better opportunities, Julián struggles to keep Cuba alive within him through language, newspapers, social clubs, radio, and letters. A True Story highlights the Hispanic community in New York, especially the close relationships between Cubans and Puerto Ricans, and acknowledges the important events that took place in this city which are fundamental to the history of Cuba. Barnet brings to life the voice of a man with a deeply broken heart that would otherwise be silenced. Miguel Barnet is a major novelist, poet, and ethnographer living in Havana. He is best known for his testimonial novels. His work is widely read throughout Cuba and abroad and has been translated into numerous languages. He has received many awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Regina Galasso is a professor of Spanish language and literature at The City University of New York. "[A True Story makes us] think about The Old Man and the Sea: a magnificent voyage, dignity where there isn't any, tenderness and resignation, struggle and memories of a lost world. All of that to return to any port with a victory in which everything has been lost." Alfredo Bryce Echenique Unomásuno, Mexico City "In La vida real, Barnet confronts the dilemma of the Latin America immigrant in the United States not from the standpoint of politics, rather, from the perspective of what is universal and human regardless of political and cultural divisions." S.R. Wilson, Chasqui-Revista de literatura latinoamericana

A True Story

Genre Fiction

Jorge Pinto Books

«No ha habido un libro como este antes y es improbable que vuelva a existir otro como él».\nGRAHAM GREENE\nEsteban Montejo, un viejo revolucionario mambí, afrocubano y nacido esclavo, cuenta su vida a un joven autor de veintitrés años, Miguel Barnet. Lo hace en 1963, en un país en el que una revolución triunfante apuesta por recuperar «la historia de la gente sin historia», por desenterrar la memoria silenciada de las rebeliones populares. Los recuerdos de la vida cotidiana del anciano se imbrican con algunos hechos históricos trascendentales para la historia de Cuba: el régimen de terror en los ingenios azucareros, los cimarrones huidos al monte, la abolición de la esclavitud, la guerra de Independencia... Y así, con paso discreto y dejando a su memoria discurrir libremente, Montejo incorpora a la suya muchas otras voces, las de tantos hombres y mujeres anónimos que han conformado el sustrato identitario de la isla caribeña.\nMiguel Barnet encontró en la palabra dicha el engranaje perfecto entre la ficción y la realidad en la que se funden lo personal con lo colectivo, convirtiendo este texto ―que se ofrece aquí en su versión definitiva―, como bien apuntó Alejo Carpentier, «en un caso único en nuestra literatura: el de un monólogo que escapa a todo mecanismo de creación literaria y, sin embargo, se inscribe en la literatura en virtud de sus proyecciones poéticas».

Biografía de un cimarrón

Siruela

Cancion de Rachel

FisicalBook

Cimarron historia de un esclavo / Story of a Slave (Spanish Edition)

Cimarrón (Spanish Edition)

Gallego (Biblioteca Cubana) (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Verbum

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The autobiography of a runaway slave,

Biography of a Runaway Slave: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Rachel's Song

Afro-Cuban Religions

Afro-Cuban Religions

A True Story

Biografía de un cimarrón

Cancion de Rachel

Cimarrón (Spanish Edition)

Gallego (Biblioteca Cubana) (Spanish Edition)