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Jos? Mart? Reader: Writings on the Americas

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jos? Mart?, Ivan Schulman (Introduction by)Publish date:03/25/25Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Seven Stories PressISBN-13:9781644213964ISBN-10:1644213966UPC:9781644213964Book Category:Literary Collections, Political Science, PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, EssaysSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC5F1YHKZW
This anthology of the writing of José Martí's features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters.

José Martí organized and unified the movement for Cuban independence and died on the battlefield. His dedication to the goal of Cuban freedom made his name a synonym for liberty throughout Latin America.
This collection of the writing of José Martí's features bilingual poetry, his political essays and writings on culture, and his letters. Readers will discover a literary genius and an insightful political commentator on the troubled relationship between the United States and Latin America.

"Martí was the guide of his time but also stands as the anticipator of ours," wrote Cuban revolutionary leader Carlos Rafael Rodríguez. Martí was an outstanding teacher, journalist, poet and revolutionary of his time, able to interweave the threads of Latin American culture and history.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Seven Stories PressISBN-13:9781644213964ISBN-10:1644213966UPC:9781644213964Book Category:Literary Collections, Political Science, PoetryBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, EssaysSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC5F1YHKZW
Jos? Mart?, (born January 28, 1853, Havana, Cuba--died May 19, 1895, Dos R?os), Cuban poet and essayist, patriot and martyr, who became the symbol of Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain. His dedication to the goal of Cuban freedom made his name a synonym for liberty throughout Latin America. As a patriot, Mart? organized and unified the movement for Cuban independence and died on the battlefield fighting for it. As a writer, he was distinguished for his personal prose and deceptively simple, sincere verse on themes of a free and united America.

Educated first in Havana, Mart? had published several poems by the age of 15, and at age 16 he founded a newspaper, La Patria Libre ("The Free Fatherland"). During a revolutionary uprising that broke out in Cuba in 1868, he sympathized with the patriots, for which he was sentenced to six months of hard labour and, in 1871, deported to Spain. There he continued his education and his writing, receiving both an M.A. and a degree in law from the University of Zaragoza in 1874 and publishing political essays. He spent the next few years in France, in Mexico, and in Guatemala, writing and teaching, and returned to Cuba in 1878.

Ivan A. Schulman is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press

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