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Biografía de un cimarrón

by Esteban Montejo, Miguel Barnet, Miguel Barnet

SlavesBiographySlaveryFugitive slavesHistoryPersonal narrativesPlantation lifeRevolution, 1895-1898

"Valuable new version of Biografía de un cimarrón includes Hill's expert translation; brief but informative preface about Esteban Montejo (the book's first-person narrator); Barnet's afterword (which replaces, albeit partially, his original introduction), in which he explains his understanding of literatura testimonal; and a glossary of terms. Original work was first translated as Autobiography of a runaway slave by Jocasta Innes (1968)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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