Biografía de Un Cimarrón: By Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo

by Esteban Montejo, Miguel Barnett, Miguel Barnet

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719080916
• ISBN13: 9780719080913
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.5"