Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza 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.
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Tomás Gutiérrez AleaAlso in A Cuban Fight Against Demons (1972)
Beatriz ValdésAlso in La bella del Alhambra (1989)
Julio García EspinosaAlso in La bella del Alhambra (1989)José TrianaAlso in A Cuban Fight Against Demons (1972)Manuel Octavio GómezAlso in Gallego (1988)
César ÉvoraAlso in La bella del Alhambra (1989)About this person
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza 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.
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