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Jose Marti and Social Revolution in Cuba*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Richard B. Gray
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To understand the social revolution in Cuba today one must be at once anthropologist, historian, sociologist, political scientist, scientist, economist, writer, philosopher, and something of a rebel oneself. In other words, one must be a Universal Man. Who of us today, however, would pretend to such all-encompassing knowledge? The Cuban Revolution in the nineteenth century, however, did produce such a man, José Martí. Or rather, it would be more accurate to say that such a man produced the Revolution, at least in the sense that Marti was the main publicist for the revolutionary Cuban exiles, co-ordinator of the emigrant groups, money collector, and author of its major political documents.

Although Marti ranks with Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín as a liberator, he is relatively unknown in the United States. Yet his collected works fill seventy-four volumes. One bibliography lists over 10,000 items, including more than a hundred books and more than 200 monographs written about him. Marti was first and last a revolutionist, but he was also a poet, one of the best, and highly praised by such authorities as Gabriela Mistral, Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, Fernando de los Ríos, Rufino Blanco Fombona, and Amado Nervo.

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Research Article
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Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 1963 , pp. 249 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1963

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Footnotes

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From a paper delivered at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April, 1962.

References

1 Obras completas de Martí, ed. Gonzalo de Quesada y Miranda (74 vols.; La Habana: Editorial Trópico, 1936-49), II, 117.

2 Ibid., VIII, 162.

3 Ibid., IV, 196.

4 Ibid., XV, 174.

5 Ibid., II, 120.

6 Martí, José, obras completas, ed. Isidro Méndez, M. (4 vols.; 2d ed.; La Habana: Ed. Lex, 1948), II, Tomo I, 110.Google Scholar

7 José Martí, obras, ed. Méndez, I, Tomo I, 246.

8 Ibid.

9 Obras., ed. Quesada y Miranda, LX, 155.

10 Ibid., XV, 152.

11 Ibid., XXII, 194.

12 lbid., II, 179-180.

13 Ibid., XXX, 181.

14 Ibid., X, 95.

15 Ibid., XIV, 59.

16 Ibid., XII, 136.

17 Ibid., XIX, 177-178.

18 Ibid., XXII, 28-29.

19 Ibid., XXVIII, 73.

20 The America of José Martí, ed. Juan de Onís (New York: The Noonday Press, 1953), p. 78.

21 Obras, ed. Quesada y Miranda, XXIX, 89.

22 Ibid., LXII, 195.

23 Castro, Fidel, La historia me absolverá (La Habana: Imprenta Económica en General, n. d.), pp. 6, 47-8.Google Scholar

24 Casuso, Teresa, Cuba and Castro (translated from the Spanish by Grossberg, Elmer, New York: Random House, 1961), p. 103.Google Scholar

25 Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, “Martí, guía de su tiempo y anticipador del nuestro,” La última hora, (enero de 1953), p. 6.

26 Obras, ed. Quesada y Miranda, XLIII, 191.