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This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, essential resource for scholars and students of Caribbean literatures.

"En face bilingual edition of only extant Latin American slave narrative written during slavery era. Original Spanish punctuation, spelling, and syntax corrected and modernized by Schulman; translation is of this new version of text. Introduction, notes, chronology give extensive background. Excellent for undergraduate classroom use. Scholars may prefer original text"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Out of print for nearly two decades, Edward Mullen's scholarly edition of Juan Francisco Manzano's autobiography and poetry has long been considered the standard text for understanding this remarkable figure's life and work. This revised second edition builds upon the achievement of the first, taking into account the wealth of academic literature that has appeared on Manzano since 1981. Providing a thorough historical, cultural, and literary contextualization, this is an accessible, essential resource for scholars and students of Caribbean literatures.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Indigenous Society and Conquest -- Christopher Columbus ''Discovers'' Cuba -- The Devastation of the Indies -- Spanish Officials and Indigenous Resistance. Various Spanish Officials -- A World Destroyed -- ''Transculturation'' and Cuba -- Survival Stories -- II Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism -- A Physician's Notes on Cuba -- The Death of the Forest -- Autobiography of a Slave -- Biography of a Runaway Slave -- Fleeing Slavery -- Santiago de Cuba's Fugitive Slaves -- Rumba -- The Trade in Chinese Laborers -- Life on a Coffee Plantation -- Cuba's First Railroad -- The Color Line -- Abolition! -- Cecilia Valdés -- Sab -- An Afro-Cuban Poet -- III The Struggle for Independence -- Freedom and Slavery -- Memories of a Cuban Girl -- José Martí's ''Our America'' -- Guantanamera -- The Explosion of the Maine. New York Journal -- U.S. Cartoonists Portray Cuba -- The Devastation of Counterinsurgency. Fifty-fifth Congress, Second Session -- IV Neocolonialism -- The Platt Amendment -- Imperialism and Sanitation -- A Child of the Platt Amendment -- Spain in Cuba -- The Independent Party of Color. El Partido Independiente de Color -- A Survivor -- Rachel's Song -- Honest Women -- Generals and Doctors -- A Crucial Decade -- Afrocubanismo and Son -- Drums in My Eyes -- Abakuá -- The First Wave of Cuban Feminism -- Life at the Mill -- Migrant Workers in the Sugar Industry -- The Cuban Counterpoint -- The Invasion of the Tourists -- Waiting Tables in Havana -- The Brothel of the Caribbean -- A Prostitute Remembers -- Sugarcane -- Where Is Cuba Headed? -- The Chase -- The Fall of Machado -- Sugar Mills and Soviets -- The United States Confronts the 1933 Revolution -- The Political Gangster -- The United Fruit Company in Cuba -- Cuba's Largest Inheritance. Bohemia -- The Last Call -- For Us, It Is Always the 26th of July -- Three Comandantes Talk It Over -- History Will Absolve Me -- Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War -- The United States Rules Cuba, 1952–1958 -- The Cuban Story in the New York Times -- V Building a New Society -- And Then Fidel Arrived -- Tornado -- Castro Announces the Revolution -- How the Poor Got More -- Fish à la Grande Jardinière -- Women in the Swamps -- Man and Socialism -- In the Fist of the Revolution -- The Agrarian Revolution -- 1961: The Year of Education -- The Literacy Campaign -- The ''Rehabilitation'' of Prostitutes -- The Family Code -- Homosexuality, Creativity, Dissidence -- The Original Sin -- Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing -- Silence on Black Cuba -- Black Man in Red Cuba -- Post-modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque -- From Utopianism to Institutionalization -- Carlos Puebla Sings about the Economy -- VI Culture and Revolution -- Caliban -- For an Imperfect Cinema -- Dance and Social Change -- Revolutionary Sport -- Mea Cuba -- In Hard Times -- The Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's Patron Saint -- A Conversation on Santería and Palo Monte -- The Catholic Church and the Revolution -- Havana's Jewish Community -- VII The Cuban Revolution and the World -- The Venceremos Brigades -- The Cuban Revolution and the New Left -- The U.S. Government Responds to Revolution. Foreign Relations of the United States -- Castro Calls on Cubans to Resist the Counterrevolution -- Operation Mongoose -- Offensive Missiles on That Imprisoned Island -- Inconsolable Memories: A Cuban View of the Missile Crisis -- The Assassination Plots Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities -- Cuban Refugee Children -- From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants -- Wrong Channel -- We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? -- City on the Edge -- Singing for Nicaragua -- Cuban Medical Diplomacy -- VIII The ''Período Especial'' and the Future of the Revolution -- Silvio Rodríguez Sings of the Special Period -- From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary -- The Revolution Turns Forty -- Colonizing the Cuban Body -- Pope John Paul II Speaks in Cuba -- Emigration in the Special Period -- The Old Man and the Boy -- Civil Society -- Forty Years Later -- A Dissident Speaks Out -- One More Assassination Plot -- An Errand in Havana -- No Turning Back for Johnny -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index