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José Martí: A Revolutionary Life: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture

Autor Alfred J. López
en Limba Engleză Hardback – noi 2014
José Martí (1853–1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the “Great Liberator” Simón Bolívar rivals Martí in stature and legacy. Beyond his accomplishments as a revolutionary and political thinker, Martí was a giant of Latin American letters, whose poetry, essays, and journalism still rank among the most important works of the region. Today he is revered by both the Castro regime and the Cuban exile community, whose shared veneration of the “apostle” of freedom has led to his virtual apotheosis as a national saint.
In José Martí: A Revolutionary Life, Alfred J. López presents the definitive biography of the Cuban patriot and martyr. Writing from a nonpartisan perspective and drawing on years of research using original Cuban and U.S. sources, including materials never before used in a Martí biography, López strips away generations of mythmaking and portrays Martí as Cuba’s greatest founding father and one of Latin America’s literary and political giants, without suppressing his public missteps and personal flaws. In a lively account that engrosses like a novel, López traces the full arc of Martí’s eventful life, from his childhood and adolescence in Cuba, to his first exile and subsequent life in Spain, Mexico City, and Guatemala, through his mature revolutionary period in New York City and much-mythologized death in Cuba on the battlefield at Dos Ríos. The first major biography of Martí in over half a century and the first ever in English, José Martí is the most substantial examination of Martí’s life and work ever published.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292739062
ISBN-10: 0292739060
Pagini: 430
Ilustrații: 11 b&w photos, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture


Notă biografică

Born in New York City to Cuban parents and raised in Miami, Alfred J. López is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. He is the author or editor of three previous books, including José Martí and the Future of Cuban Nationalism. López was the founding editor of The Global South, a leading globalization studies journal, and his work has also appeared in top journals such as American Literature, Comparative Literature, and South Atlantic Quarterly, among many others.

Cuprins

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Mariano and Leonor
  • Part One: Before the Fall (1853–1870)
    • Chapter One. An Unlikely Prodigy
    • A Boy's First Letter
    • Chapter Two. The Teacher Appears
    • Chapter Three. Trial by Fire
    • Havana Farewell
  • Part Two: Exile (1871–1880)
    • Chapter Four. Spain
    • Chapter Five. A Young Man's Travels
    • Chapter Six. Discovering America (1): Mexico
    • A Secret Mission
    • Chapter Seven. Discovering America (2): Guatemala
    • Chapter Eight. Homecoming, Interrupted
  • Part Three: The Great Work (1881–1895)
    • Chapter Nine. New York (1): A False Start
    • In the Land of Bolívar
    • Chapter Ten. New York (2): No Country, No Master
    • Chapter Eleven. New York (3): The Great Work Begins
    • Chapter Twelve. New York (4): The Final Push
    • Chapter Thirteen. Farewells and Rowboats
    • A Narrow Escape—and One Last Letter for His Patria
    • Chapter Fourteen. "My Life for My Country"
  • Epilogue: A Hero's Afterlife
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recenzii

The life, the history and the facts are all here in López’s volume. It is thorough, compelling and a generally lively account...

Descriere

Thoroughly researched, written from a nonpartisan perspective, and as lively as a novel, this is the definitive biography of the revered Cuban patriot and martyr whose revolutionary movement eventually ended the Spanish colonial domination of Cuba.