Biography of a runaway slave / [edited by] Miguel Barnet ; translated by W. Nick Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montejo, Esteban, 1860-1973.

Contributor:

Barnet, Miguel, 1940-

Hill, W. Nick, 1944-

Standardized Title:

Biografía de un cimarrón. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Montejo, Esteban, 1860-1973.

Montejo, Esteban.

Fugitive slaves--Cuba--Biography.

Fugitive slaves.

Plantation life.

History.

Cuba.

Revolutionaries--Cuba--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Cuba--History--Revolution, 1895-1898--Personal narratives.

Plantation life--Cuba--History--19th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

217 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press ; East Haven, CT : Distributed by InBook, 1994.

Summary:

...a powerful account of a vanished world...invaluable.-"Newsweek" "Its contribution to our understanding of Cuban history and national temperament is no less than its immense appeal as a human testament....All the fire and dash of the Cuban character, the refusal ever to cringe or to give up, take on flesh and meaning in the reminiscences of this stubborn veteran."-"Times Literary Supplement" Miguel Barnet lives in Havana, Cuba, where he was born in 1940. He is the originator of the tradition of "Testimonial" fiction in Latin American letters, and he remains the genre's acknowledged master.

Notes:

Previously published: The autobiography of a runaway slave / edited by Miguel Barnet ; translated from the Spanish by Jocasta Innes. 1st American ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 1968.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-213).

ISBN:

1880684187 :

OCLC:

30624609