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Con el fin de festejar el centenario de la muerte de José Martí (1853-1895) se ofrece un libro cuyo objeto es esclarecer los nexos entre las estrategias de narrar y el proyecto de representar la nación; demostrar las distintas manifestaciones de este doble proceso que ocupa un lugar central en los textos martianos, y señalar cómo la textualización de la nación y el universo subjetivo del narrador constituyen un doble y articulado mecanismo discursivo. En la obra vasta y fragmentaria de José Martí la escritura de la identidad nacional se construye con la incorporación de códigos de...

Painting Modernism demonstrates the influence of painting and sculpture on the work of the major writers of Latin American modernism. Through his analysis, Ivan A. Schulman, a foundational figure in the field, offers a concise and new interpretation of works by Jose Asuncion Silva, Julian del Casal, Ruben Dario, Jose Juan Tablada, and Jose Marti. Traditional critical discourse on modernism has emphasized the nature of this movement in terms of its self-referentiality, fragmentation, elitist/escapist concepts, and subjective notions of cultural and aesthetic authenticity. Schulman...

Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814-1873) was born in Cuba and split her life between Spain and her native island. Author of original novels, short stories and drama, she wrote Sab (1836-1841), considered the first Cuban novel about slavery in the island. Within its plots and subplots Sab comprises a modern message, as Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a highly prized author during her active literary life, exposes and advocates for the principles of freedom and equal human as well as feminine rights by means of a highly romantic story, building up a message that still stands valid today, as in...

Lucia Jerez, the only novel written by Jose Marti (Cuba, 1853-1895) ranks among the first and most important novels of Hispanic American Modernism. This work, overlooked or trivialized by critics over theyears, today is considered a revolutionary narrtive because in it the writer experiments with techniques that pre-announce the XX Century Vanguard writiers, and even contemporary post-modernism texts. This is a novel built upon symbols, impresionist and expresionist prose, full of visionary enunciations that depict the present and future of an off-balance world; and the fragile and inconstant...