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The Autobiography of a Slave / Autobiografia de Un Esclavo

The Autobiography of a Slave / Autobiografia de Un Esclavo

Manzano, Juan Francisco
Schulman, Ivan A.
Garfield, Evelyn Picon

Paperback

Series: Latin American Literature

Historical Figures

ISBN10: 0814325386
ISBN13: 9780814325384
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Jan 1 1996
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's colonial slave society, wrote the only known autobiographical account of Latin American slavery. His narrative, composed in two parts, is a heart-rendering history of the systematic, unrelenting destruction of human dignity and individual will. It bears the marks of slavery, not merely by virtue of the countless oppressive autobiographical events and the cruel punishments that are narrated, but also because of its unorthodox syntax and orthography in the original manuscript, and the destruction of the second half of Manzano's history which disappeared mysteriously during his lifetime and has never surfaced since. In this first bilingual edition of the volume, Evelyn Picon Garfield provides a careful translation of Manzano's somber narration. Ivan Schulman introduces the text to place it in historical and cultural context.

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