José Martí - E-book - 9781137122650

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José Martí - ENG

Images Of Memory And Mourning

E. Bejel

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ISBN:	9781137122650
Formato:	Page Fidelity
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Historia
Subtema:	Américas (Norte, Central, Sur, Indias occidentales)
Año de publicación:	2016-07-14

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 Martís images to be perceived as icons today. It argues that an observer of Martís 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 Martís 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.

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