Syncing the Americas : José Martí and the shaping of national identity /

This book focuses on José Martí's reflections and critique of social, cultural, and political events in the United States between the years of 1880 and 1895, bringing together some of the most recognized scholars from the United States, Cuba, South America, and Europe studying Martí in a unique...

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Other Authors: Spangler, Ryan Anthony, 1977- (Editor), Schwarzmann, Georg M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg : Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Reading the other America: history, translation, and political landscapes
  • "Nuestra América" and the crisis of Latin Americanism / Enrico Mario Santí
  • "He has not made himself known to me": José Martí, U.S. history, and the question of translation / Esther Allen
  • Social and cultural textualizations of the modern Martí project: the North American chronicles / Ivan Schulman
  • Emerson and Martí: close readings, context and translation / Anne Fountain
  • Creating superman: Martí, Nietzsche, and Whitman / Georg Schwarzmann
  • Politics, justice, and style: José Martí reads Mark Twain / Ariela Schnirmajer
  • Bancroft, Motley, Martí and American renaissance historiography / Rafael Rojas Gutiérrez
  • Part II. Defining and building the modern nation: race, punishment, and poetics
  • The city unmakes empires: José Martí's Latina/o urbanism / Laura Lomas
  • Fear and gratitude: Martí's Chronicles in patria / Jorge Camacho
  • José Martí: a rendering of black issues in the United States / Oleski Miranda Navarro
  • José Martí, our revolutionary Victor Hugo? / Reinaldo Suárez
  • Vile brothers: exclusion in José Martí's republican dream / Francisco Morán
  • Modern tensions in the poetics of José Martí / Ryan Anthony Spangler
  • Martí and his "Amor de ciudad grande": notes on the poetics of versos libres / Roberto González Echevarría
  • José Martí and the call of technology in "Amor de ciudad grande" / David P. Laraway.