José Martí [electronic resource] : Images of Memory and Mourning /
Bejel, E.author.
This book is a critical study of visual representations of José Martí The National Hero of Cuba , and the discourses of power that make it possible for Martí's images to be perceived as icons today. It argues that an observer of Martí's icons who is immersed in the Cuban national narrative experiences a retrospective reconstruction of those images by means of ideologically formed national discourses of power. Also, the obsessive reproduction of Martí's icons signals a melancholia for the loss of the martyr-hero. But instead of attempting to "forget Martí," the book concludes that the utopian impulse of his memory should serve to resist melancholia and to visualize new forms of creative re-significations of Martí and, by extension, the nation.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; José Martí; Contents; List of Figures; About the Artist; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Rereading the National Icon; A Brief Chapter Summary; Gaze, Intentionality, and Manipulation; Modern Times, New Technology; The Reciprocal Gaze; Intentionality and Manipulation; Total Awareness; Battling for the National Icon; Monuments in Jeopardy; Monumentalizing Martí; The Classical Teacher: Havana'sCentral Park, 1905; The Lost Relic: Santiago's Mausoleum, 1951; From Neutral Thinker to CombativeRevolutionary: From the Civic Plaza(1958) to the Revolution Plaza (1959- )
The Fallen Warrior: New York'sCentral Park, 1965The Belligerent Father: Havana'sAnti- Imperialist Tribune, 2000; Conclusion; The Filming of a Memory; A Personal Experience; A Critical Approach; A Reciprocal Gaze betweenObserver and Observed; A Political Gaze between Writingand the Visual Image; A Melancholic Gaze betweenPhotography and Film; Melancholia for Martí; A Depathologized Collective Melancholia; The Death of a Bureaucrat; The Republican Vacuum; A Personal Heroic Legacy; A Realist Painting; Eschatology of the Martyr; Compulsive and Compulsory Iconolatry
Special Period: Memorialization and HeresyDesacralization; Conclusion; Afterthoughts: Resisting Cuban Melancholia; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is a critical study of visual representations of José Martí The National Hero of Cuba , and the discourses of power that make it possible for Martí's images to be perceived as icons today. It argues that an observer of Martí's icons who is immersed in the Cuban national narrative experiences a retrospective reconstruction of those images by means of ideologically formed national discourses of power. Also, the obsessive reproduction of Martí's icons signals a melancholia for the loss of the martyr-hero. But instead of attempting to "forget Martí," the book concludes that the utopian impulse of his memory should serve to resist melancholia and to visualize new forms of creative re-significations of Martí and, by extension, the nation.
Martí, José, 1853-1895
Martí, José, 1853-1895
Latin America—Politics and government.
Ethnology—Latin America.
America—History.
Political science.
Romance languages.
Political theory.
Latin American Politics.
Latin American Culture.
History of the Americas.
Political Science.
Romance Languages.
Political Theory.