Re-reading José Martí (1853-1895)
Subtitle: one hundred years later
By: edited by and with an introduction by Julio Rodríguez-Luis.
Contributors: Rodríguez-Luis, Julio.
Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Criticism and interpretation; Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Political and social views
Description: This is one of the very few books on the Cuban political thinker and poet Jose Marti available in English. Written by renowned Latin Americanists, the book explores the man who created the notion of Latin America - Nuestra America (also the title of Marti's seminal text) as a distinct cultural and racial identity. Marti's influence as a writer in Latin America was almost as great as the one he had as a statesman.

An extraordinarily innovative poet and prose writer, he contributed effectively to modernizing Latin American literature, linguistically and thematically. One hundred years after Marti's death, Re-reading Jose Marti (1853-1895) re-evaluates his contribution to Latin America's literature and political evolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-149) and index.