Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
12 - José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
from Part II - The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter reads the prose and poetry of New York-resident Cuban José Martí as part of a transnational, multilingual Latina/o American literary and cultural history. Although read primarily as a national literary figure, Martí's writing also belongs to the borderlands and migratory routes of the global south in the north. In journalism or crónicas published in newspapers in the United States or Latin America and the Caribbean, in poetry, or in his notebooks and fragmentary writings, the leading ideologue of Cuba's anticolonial struggle conjured a Latina/o American form against the dominant literary schools of realism and sentimentalism, against monolingualism, against pan-Americanism and against racism. Martí draws on his transnational comparative reading of French and United States writers such as Baudelaire, Flaubert, Emerson and Douglass, and of experiences of other racialized groups including Chinese, African-Americans and "tejanos" to articulate from his Latino perspective an alternative to the dominant culture of the Gilded Age United States.
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