Jose Marti, the United States, and the Marxist Interpretation of Cuban History.

1985 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 577
Author(s):  
Louis A. Perez ◽  
Carlos Ripoll
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jose Marti ◽  
Marxist Interpretation ◽  
Cuban History

scholarly journals Reading Resistances in Ralph Waldo Emerson and José Martí

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
ANDREW TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jose Marti ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Starting Point

This article takes as its starting point a consideration of the ways in which the ideological methodology of “New Americanist” criticism has closed off possibilities of reading that might choose to value ambiguity, contradiction, and excess – elements which militate against the discursive neatness of critique. In readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and José Martí, I argue that resolutely politicized interpretations of Emerson fail to do justice to the unstable texture of his prose. In turn, Martí's writing about the United States is more uneven, surreal and excessive than a straightforward account of postcolonial resistance allows. Both Emerson and Martí exhibit a discursive flexibility that puts pressure on readings driven by inflexible ideological parameters seeking to position both men within frameworks of political quietism and postcolonial revolution respectively. I explore how the idea of revolution is imagined by Emerson in ways that run counter to our more conventional understanding of political transformation. To be sure, Martí's revolutionary actions in the cause of Cuban independence were tangible in ways that Emerson could never have countenanced for himself; nevertheless Emerson's understanding of resistance as differently located and performed provoked in Martí a high, and consistent, degree of sympathy.

The Quesadas of Cuba: Biographers and Editors of José Martí Y Pérez

1966 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Gray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Jose Marti ◽  
American States ◽  
National Hero ◽  
Father And Son

Students of the life and writings of José Martí y Pérez (1853–1895), the National Hero of Cuba, will be forever indebted to the lifelong efforts of Marti’s close friend, fellow revolutionist, and “literary heir,” Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui, and to those of his son, Gonzalo de Quesada y Miranda. Through painstaking research and editing they have preserved, over a period of nearly seventy years, the record of Martí’s prodigious writings as a revolutionist, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and poet. It is no exaggeration to say that most of the writing on this remarkable Cuban is derived from their carefully edited collections of his works. Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui, as one of the architects of Cuban independence, Cuba’s first Minister to the United States, and major participant in the early International Conferences of American States, is deserving of special attention by scholars in the Americas. Now that a third official edition of Marti’s writings is nearing completion by Gonzalo de Quesada y Miranda in Cuba, a biographical and bibliographical sketch of the Quesadas, father and son, is in order.

Jose Marti in the United States: The Florida Experience

Hispania ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 312
Author(s):  
Jorge Rodriguez-Florido ◽  
Louis Perez ◽  
Ivan A. Schulman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jose Marti

José Martí and the United States: A Further Interpretation

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Kirk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marxist Philosophy ◽  
Jose Marti ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Gabriela Mistral ◽  
Fidel Castro

‘El hombre más puro de la raza’. This opinion of the Chilean poetess Gabriela Mistral sums up the general feelings of all critics and historians who have studied Martí's life: both as a Cuban patriot and as a sincere human being Martí evokes admiration from all sides. The same cannot be said, however, about his copious writings – twenty-seven volumes in the latest edition (Editorial Nacional de Cuba) — which have led to many differences of interpretation: for some he is the embodiment of Marxist philosophy, while others have shown how little his views have in common with orthodox Socialism. Within Cuba itself, political leaders as diverse in their ideals as Carlos Prío, Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro have all claimed to be putting into practice the philosophy of Martí.

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