Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895)

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Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895)
One Hundred Years Later

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Julio Rodriguez-Luis - Editor

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Price: $47.50
Hardcover - 158 pages

Release Date: June 1999

ISBN10: 0-7914-4239-X
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4239-5

Price: $26.95
Paperback - 158 pages

Release Date: June 1999

ISBN10: 0-7914-4240-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4240-1

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Summary

Re-evaluates Jose Marti's contribution to Latin America's literature and political evolution.

This is one of the very few books on the Cuban political thinker and poet Jose Marti available in English. Written by renowned Latin Americanists, the book explores the man who created the notion of Latin America--Nuestra America--(also the title of Marti's seminal text) as a distinct cultural and racial identity. Marti's influence as a writer in Latin America was almost as great as the one he had as a statesman. An extraordinarily innovative poet and prose writer, he contributed effectively to modernizing Latin American literature, linguistically and thematically. One hundred years after Marti's death, Re-reading Jose Marti(1853-1895) re-evaluates his contribution to Latin America's literature and political evolution.

Through his journalistic writings Marti was tremendously influential in shaping the notion of a distinct Latin America as well as in predicting the United States' imperialistic tendencies regarding those countries. Revered in Cuba, Marti, more than any other patriot, stirred nationalistic feelings necessary to organize the war that finally secured Cuba's independence from Spain.

"It is by far the best collection of essays about one of the most significant and least understood thinkers of nineteenth-century Latin America. Some essays are simply extraordinary. They give a good sense of the complexities, contradictions, and passion with which Jose Marti engaged in literary pursuits and politics. The reader who does not know Marti gets a sense of his importance; the reader who knows Marti is challenged to revise assumptions and explore new suggestive avenues in his work. The essays move easily between periods and authors, demonstrating the centrality of Marti for the entire continent up to the present." -- Ivan Jaksic, University of Notre Dame

"It is fascinating to take a thinker of Marti's stature who wrote over one hundred years ago and insert his perspective in the context of our present-day issues. I don't know of any other collection of Marti studies that achieves this goal as strongly. This collection contains some bold and innovative work." -- Ofelia Schutte, Universityof Florida

Contributors include Ottmar Ette, Cathy L. Jrade, Julio Ramos, Susana Rotker, Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal, Enrico Mario Santi, Rafael Saumell-Munoz, Ivan A. Schulman, and Adalberto Ronda Varona.

Julio Rodriguez-Luis is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of several books, including The Contemporary Praxis of the Fantastic: Borges and Cortazar and El enfoque documental en la narrativa hispanoamericana: Estudio taxonomico.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On the Re-evaluation of Martí
Julio Rodriguez-Luis

1. Martí Confronts Modernity
Cathy L. Jrade

2. Jose Martí and the United States: On the Margins of the Gaze
Susana Rotker

3. "I Carry a Wound Across My Chest": The Body in Martí's Poetry
Ottmar Ette

4. Migratories
Julio Ramos

5. Thinking Through Martí
Enrico Mario Santi

6. On How to Read Martí's Thought
Adalberto Ronda Varona

7. Castro as Martí's Reader in Chief
Rafael Saumell-Muñoz

8. "Martí and Race": A Re-evaluation
Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal

9. Textual Intersections: Martí and His Social Texts
Ivan A. Schulman

Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

Comparative Literature
Comparative Politics
Latin American Studies

35621/35622(ZL/MH/AV)

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