Miguel barnet biography

Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza (born January 28, 1940) is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer.
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer.
Miguel Barnet (born January 28, 1940, Havana, Cuba) is a novelist, poet, ethnographer, and expert on Afro-Cuban culture.

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Miguel Barnet.Biography of a Runaway Slave. Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press, 1994. 217 pp. $11.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-880684-18-4.

Reviewed by Dale T. Graden (University of Idaho)
Published on H-Ethnic (October, 1996)

Miguel Barnet's Biography of a Runaway Slave: Testimonial Literature as History

Few documentary sources exist from the Caribbean islands and the Latin American mainland written by Africans or their descendants that describe their life under enslavement. In Brazil, two mulatto abolitionists wrote sketchy descriptions of their personal experiences, and one autobiography of a black man was published before emancipation. In contrast, several thousand slave narratives and eight full-length autobiographies were published in the United States before the outbreak of the Civil War (1860-1865) (Conrad, p. xix). In Cuba, one slave narrative appeared in the nineteenth century. Penned by Juan Francisco Manzano, the Autobiografia (written in 1835, published in England in 1840, and in Cuba in 1937) recounted the life of an enslaved black who learned how t

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Abstract

MUNOZ, Juliana Fillies Testa. Rethinking the Independence of Cuba from Miguel Barnet´s Biography of a Runaway SlaveRethinking the Independence of Cuba from Miguel Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave. Inter.c.a.mbio [online]. 2021, vol.18, n.1, e44799. ISSN 1659-4940. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/c.a..v18i1.44799.

The testimonial story Biography of a Runaway Slave by Miguel Barnet is one of the pioneers of the narrative genre and has attracted the attention of critics from the moment of its publication. The novel-testimony is seen by scholars as a text that allows the reader access to a "genuine" episteme, safeguarded by a witness of historical events. The main objective of this article is to demonstrate that the narrative of the maroon and former mambí Esteban Montejo opens new paths of reading and analyzing historical moments. In particular, the focus will be on his statements on the Cuban War of Independence. For that purpose, the theory of Subaltern Studies will be used as a methodological tool. The analysis will highlight the denial of the Afro-Cuban

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Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza

Cuban writer and ethnographer (born 1940)

Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza (born January 28, 1940) is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimarrón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who was 103 when they met. He had escaped and lived as a marron before slavery was abolished in Cuba.^[1]

Barnet's style of testimonial in this work became a standard for ethnography in Latin America.^[1] One of his later testimonial books, Gallego, was adapted as a 1988 film by the same name.

Early life

Miguel Angel Barnet Lanza was born on January 28, 1940, in Havana, Cuba, to a prominent Cuban family of Catalan descent.^[1] Though he had his early education in the United States, when his family lived in Atlanta, Georgia, for a time, Barnet maintained a high degree of interest in and awareness of Cuban culture. In his e