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On Captivity
2012
Overview
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On Captivity is the first translation into English of
Del Cautiverio , Manuel Ciges Aparicio’s account of
his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabaña fortress in
Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895–98).
Ciges enlisted in the Spanish army in 1893 at the age of twenty.
He served in Africa and then in Cuba, where he opposed Spanish
General Valeriano Weyler’s policies in Cuba as well as the
war itself. Ciges soon found himself imprisoned and facing
execution for treason as punishment for an article critical of
Weyler’s conducting of the war that was intercepted by
Spanish authorities before it could be published in the pro-Cuban
Parisian paper
L’Intransigeant . First published in book form in
1903, Ciges’s account includes detailed observations
concerning prison organization, perceptions of political events
and personalities of the time, as well as graphic descriptions of
the daily life of the men confined in the infamous prison. Ciges
is the only one of the so-called Generation of 1898—writers
considered to have been deeply marked by
el desastre (the loss of the colonies)—who was in
Cuba during the war years. His witness to events there, colored
by his stance as a freethinker and political skeptic, constitutes
a significant historical document. Following his release from
prison, Ciges returned to Spain where he resumed his career as an
activist journalist and also earned acclaim as a translator and
novelist. In time, his political allegiances shifted from
socialism to liberal republicanism. He was acting as provincial
governor of Avila when he was killed by unidentified assassins on
August 4, 1936—eighteen days after the Falangist uprising
against the Second Republic.
Publisher
University of Alabama Press,The University of Alabama Press
Subject
ISBN
9780817317690, 0817317694
