Considerable attention has been given to Cuban poet, essayist, and
activist Jose Marti's 1891 essay "Nuestra America," but relatively
little has been paid to the rest of the journalistic work that
Marti produced during his fourteen-year exile in the United States.
In Jose Marti's Our America, Jeffrey Belnap and Raul Fernandez
present essays from Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S.-based
scholars who consider Marti's rich and underexplored body of work
and position Marti as an emblem of New American studies. A Cuban
exile from 1881 to 1895, Marti was a correspondent writing in New
York for various Latin American newspapers. Grasping the
significance of rising U.S. imperial power, he came to understand
the Americas as a complex system of kindred-but not equal-national
formations whose cultural and political integrity was threatened by
the overbearing aggressiveness of the United States. This
collection explores how in his journalistic work Marti critiques
U.S. racism, imperialism, and capitalism; warns Latin America of
impending U.S. geographical, cultural, and economic annexation; and
calls for recognition of the diversity of America's cultural
voices. Reinforcing Marti's hemispheric vision with essays by a
wide range of scholars who investigate his analysis of the United
States, his significance as a Latino outsider, and his analyses of
Latin American cultural politics, this volume explores the
affinities between Marti's thought and current reexaminations of
what it means to study America. Jose Marti's Our America offers a
new understanding of Marti's ambiguous and problematic relation
with the United States and will engage scholars and students in
American, Latin American, and Latino studies as well as those
interested in cultural, postcolonial, gender, and ethnic studies.
Contributors. Jeffrey Belnap, Raul Fernandez, Ada Ferrer, Susan
Gillman, George Lipsitz, Oscar Marti, David Noble, Donald E. Pease,
Beatrice Pita, Brenda Gayle Plummer, Susana Rotker, Jose David
Saldivar, Rosaura Sanchez, Enrico Mario Santi, Doris Sommer, Brook
Thomas
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