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José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas

José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas

Current price: $14.95
Publication Date: October 1st, 2006
Publisher:
Ocean Press
ISBN:
9781920888749
Pages:
300

Description

" Mart ] added a social agenda to the historic program of national liberation and instantly converted a movement devoted to the establishment of a new nation into a force dedicated to shaping a new society. Mart transformed rebellion into revolution. . . . Like a master weaver, Mart pulled together all the separate threads of Cuban discontent--social, economic, political, racial, historical--and wove them into a radical movement of enormous force."--Louis A. P rez Jr, author of Jos Mart in the United States

"Oh Cuba . . . the blood of Mart was not yours alone; it belonged to an entire race, to an entire continent; it belonged to the powerful youth who have lost probably the best of teachers; he belonged to the future "--Rub n Dar o

This new edition of an elegant anthology features bilingual poetry, a revised translation, and several new pieces. It presents the full breadth of Jos Mart 's work: his political essays and writings on culture, his letters, and his poetry. Readers will discover a literary genius and an insightful political commentator on troubled US-Latin America relations.

About the Author

José Martí was born in Havana, Cuba. He was imprisoned for treason by the Spanish. He lived in New York in exile for 14 years before returning to Cuba, where he was executed in 1868. Ivan Schulman is a leading US scholar on the writings of Jose Marti.