Del cimarrón Esteban a la intelectual Georgina. Notas sobre la evolución del género testimonial negro en Cuba

Starting from a due reflection on Miguel Barnet’s Cimarrón as the first experiment on a testimony-novel – and considering the problems and contradictions of a cultural and political operation in which the witness-informant’s voice risks being overcome or at least misinterpreted by the author-transcr...

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Main Author: Irina Bajini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2011-11-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/1557
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spelling doaj-8170fbeaf3d64cdaa459ca9d7e17a2802020-11-25T03:17:44ZengUniversità degli Studi di MilanoAltre Modernità2035-76802011-11-0106547310.13130/2035-7680/15571449Del cimarrón Esteban a la intelectual Georgina. Notas sobre la evolución del género testimonial negro en CubaIrina Bajini0Università degli Studi di MilanoStarting from a due reflection on Miguel Barnet’s Cimarrón as the first experiment on a testimony-novel – and considering the problems and contradictions of a cultural and political operation in which the witness-informant’s voice risks being overcome or at least misinterpreted by the author-transcriber – this paper goes on to consider the evolution of the testimony genre in 1990s Cuba, where women of African descent often intervened by speaking or writing, and managed to impose their views autonomously.https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/1557cimarrón, novela testimonial, testimonio, mujer negra, revolución cubana
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Del cimarrón Esteban a la intelectual Georgina. Notas sobre la evolución del género testimonial negro en Cuba
Altre Modernità
cimarrón, novela testimonial, testimonio, mujer negra, revolución cubana
author_facet Irina Bajini
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title Del cimarrón Esteban a la intelectual Georgina. Notas sobre la evolución del género testimonial negro en Cuba
title_short Del cimarrón Esteban a la intelectual Georgina. Notas sobre la evolución del género testimonial negro en Cuba
title_full Del cimarrón Esteban a la intelectual Georgina. Notas sobre la evolución del género testimonial negro en Cuba
title_fullStr Del cimarrón Esteban a la intelectual Georgina. Notas sobre la evolución del género testimonial negro en Cuba
title_full_unstemmed Del cimarrón Esteban a la intelectual Georgina. Notas sobre la evolución del género testimonial negro en Cuba
title_sort del cimarrón esteban a la intelectual georgina. notas sobre la evolución del género testimonial negro en cuba
publisher Università degli Studi di Milano
series Altre Modernità
issn 2035-7680
publishDate 2011-11-01
description Starting from a due reflection on Miguel Barnet’s Cimarrón as the first experiment on a testimony-novel – and considering the problems and contradictions of a cultural and political operation in which the witness-informant’s voice risks being overcome or at least misinterpreted by the author-transcriber – this paper goes on to consider the evolution of the testimony genre in 1990s Cuba, where women of African descent often intervened by speaking or writing, and managed to impose their views autonomously.
topic cimarrón, novela testimonial, testimonio, mujer negra, revolución cubana
url https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/1557
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