MIGUEL BARNET


Biografía de
un cimarrón



Biography of a     
Runaway Slave    






Plants of the Nearctic Realm




Yuquilla / Arrowroot

Latin name: Maranta arundinacea
Number of times mentioned:
1
Region of origin:
Mexico, Central America, South America

Quotations:

"Se parecía al atol que se hacía de sagú: yuquilla que se rayaba y salta igual que el almidón." (60)

"It was like atol that was made with sagu, arrowroot that was rolled and came out like corn starch." (77)


Botanical Reference:
Pedro Acevedo and Mark Strong, “Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies,” Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98 (January 1, 2012): 529, https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.98.1."









Image credits:

Tomás Sánchez, Autorretrato En Tarde Rosa, 1994, Acrylic on linen, 1994,
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/tomas-sanchez-landscape-paintings/.


Tomás Sánchez, Orilla y Cielo Gris, 1995, Acrylic on canvas, 1995,
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/tomas-sanchez-landscape-paintings/.



Text editions:


Esteban Montejo and Miguel Barnet, Biografía de Un Cimarrón, 223 p. (La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1980), catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005222640.


Esteban Montejo, Biography of a Runaway Slave, ed. Miguel Barnet, trans. W. Nick Hill (Connecticut: Curbstone Press, 1994).