José Martí

Images of Memory and Mourning
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-34075-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 163 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bejel, E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Gaze, Intentionality, and Manipulation Battling for the National Icon The Filming of a Memory Melancholia for Martí Afterthoughts: Resisting Cuban Melancholia

Über Autor(innen)

Emilio Bejel is a distinguished professor of Latin American Studies at the University of California at Davis.