Jose Marti and the global Origins of Cuban Independence (Paperback)

A nationalist campaigner, civil rights advocate, diplomat, lecturer and orator, journalist, poet, author of children's stories, visionary champion of anti-colonial Latin American and Caribbean thought, all are expressions of Jose Marti's (1853-95) extraordinary life in fighting for Cuba's definitive independence. This work opens a new path in studies of Marti's efforts to build a modern democratic Cuba by widening the lens under which the Cuban hero has been examined. In joining these different facets of Marti and by going beyond the national and hemispheric, Garcia de la Torre introduces the largely ignored global influences and dimensions that marked the revolutionary's work and ideas. From Marti's global histories for children to his adaptation of Hindu and Eastern conceptions, through a juxtaposition of The Bhagavad-Gita, to his relationships and inspirations from the African diaspora to the US Civil War and Ulysses S. Grant, Garcia de la Torre vividly reveals the global origins of Marti's ideas regarding governance, citizenship, independence and spirituality. In bridging the familiar and the individual with larger global patterns and processes of the late nineteenth century, Jose Marti and the Global Origins of Cuban Independence gives birth to a modern Cuba understood from a truly global perspective.

General

Imprint:	University of the West Indies Press
Country of origin:	Jamaica
Release date:	September 2015
Authors:	Armando Garcia de la Torre
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-976-640-552-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy Books > History > American history > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	976-640-552-2
Barcode:	9789766405526

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