[Marxism] FASCINATING: Miami radio interview with Cuban author Miguel Barnet

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Far too long to post here, this hour-long interview with the Cuban
author Miguel Barnet is now available in English translation for the
first time anywhere. The interviewer and guest evidently knew one
another here in Cuba before the interviewer went to Miami. He tries
to draw Barnet out into making statements against Cuba and its system,
but Barnet responds carefully, politely and effectively to each one of
the questions/challenges put to him. Fascinating material.)
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Interview with Miguel Barnet  
Transcribed from the radio program 
?Night Moves?
By Edmundo García
1210 AM, Monday to Friday, 9 to 10 p.m.
Miami
 
September 2007 

A CubaNews translation by Ana Portela.
Edited by Walter Lippmann.

Miguel Barnet Lanza was born in Havana, Cuba, on January 28, 1940. He is a
Cuban writer and ethnologist. He is known mostly for his novel-testimony
Biografía de un cimarrón (1966). He is one of the Cuban writers with greater
international renown and his work has been translated into several
languages. In 1994 he obtained the Cuban National Award of Literature. 
As an ethnologist he has specialized in Afro-Cuban culture. He gathered
several oral narrations in Akeké y la Jutía (1978). He has also studied
Santeria and other aspects of black culture in Cuba. 

His poetry is in a conversational style as well as with frequent use of
Afro-Cuban mythology. His narratives, primarily in his Biografía de un
cimarrón are based on oral stories of an old cimarrón (runaway slave) slave,
Esteban Montejo. Other novels have been widely distributed: such is the case
of Gallego and Canción de Rachel, both adapted to films (the second with the
title of La bella del Alhambra). 

In 1994 he founded the Fernando Ortiz foundation of which he is the
president. Since 1999 he directs the Cuban journal of anthropology, Catauro.
In 2006 he obtained the Juan Rulfo award in the category of stories for his
book "Fátima o el parque de la fraternidad", which tells the life of a
transvestite in Havana. 

Among his most important works are his novels Biografía de un cimarrón
(1966), Canción de Rachel (1969), Gallego (1983), La vida real (1986),
Oficio de ángel (1989); his poetry with La piedra fina y el pavo real
(1963), Isla de güijes (1964), La sagrada familia (1967), Orikis y otros
poemas (1980), Carta de noche (1982), an anthology Viendo mi vida pasar
(1987), Mapa del tiempo (1989), Poemas chinos (1993), Con pies de gato
(anthology,1993), Actas del final (2000). Among his essays and ethnology are
Akeké y la Jutía. Fábulas cubanas, Cultos Afrocubanos. La Regla de Ocha. La
Regla de Palo Monte (1995), La fuente viva (1998),  
Symbols:
EG. Edmundo García.          
MB. Miguel Barnet.      

http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs1700.html
A CubaNews translation by Ana Portela. 
Edited by Walter Lippmann. Spanish original:
http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs1700-e.html


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