Considerable attention has been given to Cuban poet, essayist, and activist Jose Marti's 1891 essay "Nuestra America," but relatively little has been paid to the rest of the journalistic work that Marti produced during his fourteen-year exile in the United States. In Jose Marti's Our America, Jeffrey Belnap and Raul Fernandez present essays from Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S.-based scholars who consider Marti's rich and underexplored body of work and position Marti as an emblem of New American studies.
A Cuban exile from 1881 to 1895, Marti was a correspondent writing in New...