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Jose Marti - Images of Memory and Mourning (Hardcover, New)
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Jose Marti - Images of Memory and Mourning (Hardcover, New)
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This book is a critical study of visual representations of Jose
Marti-The National Hero of Cuba-, and the discourses of power that
make it possible for Marti's images to be perceived as icons today.
It argues that an observer of Marti'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 Marti's
icons signals a melancholia for the loss of the martyr-hero. But
instead of attempting to forget Marti, 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 Marti
and, by extension, the nation. Contents: Gaze, Intentionality, and
Manipulation Battling for the National Icon The Filming of a Memory
Melancholia for Marti Afterthoughts: Resisting Cuban Melancholia
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