Posthumous History of Jose Marti - The Apostle and His Afterlife

The monograph focuses on Martí's posthumous legacy on generations of Cubans everywhere. It examines roughly 120-year history of posthumous Martí scholarship, recent work in postcolonial and global South studies, to reveal how generations of scholar combatants have used Martí's words and image for wildly divergent political imperatives

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Apostle and I
First Encounters
Chapter One: The Making of The Apostle; or, The Martí Wars
Cuba and the United States: An Apostolic View
Chapter Two: The Repeating Idol: Martí and the Iconography of the Nation
The Apostle and the Virgin?
Chapter Three: Dressing for Success in Interdisciplinary Contexts;
or, Martí and the Rediscovery of the New World
An Open Letter to President Obama about José Martí [April 4, 2016]
Chapter Four: Can The Apostle Speak? Possible Lessons for Latinx and Global South Studies
What My Students Can Learn from José Martí
Conclusion: The Apostle as Oracle

About the author

Alfred J. López is Professor and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies at Purdue University. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Global South Literatures, forthcoming from Routledge

Summary

The monograph focuses on Martí’s posthumous legacy on generations of Cubans everywhere. It examines roughly 120-year history of posthumous Martí scholarship, recent work in postcolonial and global South studies, to reveal how generations of scholar combatants have used Martí’s words and image for wildly divergent political imperatives

Product details

• Authors: Alfred J. Lopez, Alfred J. López
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032319674
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231967-4
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Marxism & Communism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature