José Martí: A Revolutionary Life (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and L)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292739060 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 426 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to Manuel A. Tellechea. The definitive biography of José Martí and the first to merit that distinction. To have reached that preeminence before López's biography required little more than to include an index, footnotes and bibliography. All these are missing without exception from pre. that it was burdensome for Cuban-American like myself to get the gist of it Professor López did an outstanding job researching this book. I had tried reading Jorge Mañach's book on Martí in the past, but I could only understand only 5% of its content. Its Spanish was so erudite, that it was burdensome for Cuban-American like myself to . Two of the other reviewers, Manuel Tellechea and Jorge Two of the other reviewers, Manuel Tellechea and Jorge Ponce, are personal friends of the author. Lopez purloined images from my web site and plagiarized some of my academic work. Read about the controversy here []
"The life, the history and the facts are all here in López’s volume. It will be the standard biography—in English or Spanish—for years to come." (Gustavo Pérez Firmat, David Feinson Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, and author of the award-winning Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way)"This is the one and only book that treats the nineteenth-century Cuban figure José Martí as a human instead of an idol, an apostle, or an unblemished personality. Anyone now writing about Martí and the war of independence will have to refer to this book. It establishes a new field." (Tom Miller, author of Trad
López was the founding editor of The Global South, a leading globalization studies journal, and his work has also appeared in top journals such as American Literature, Comparative Literature, and South Atlantic Quarterly, among many others. He is the author or editor of three previous books, including José Martí and the Future of Cuban Nationalism. Born in New York City to Cuban parents and raised in Miami, Alfred J. López is Professor of English and Comparativ
The first major biography of Martí in over half a century and the first ever in English, José Martí is the most substantial examination of Martí's life and work ever published.. Writing from a nonpartisan perspective and drawing on years of research using original Cuban and U.S. Beyond his accomplishments as a revolutionary and political thinker, Martí was a giant of Latin American letters, whose poetry, essays, and journalism still rank among the most important works of the region. sources, including materials never before used in a Martí biography, López strips away generations of mythmaking and portrays Martí as Cuba's greatest founding father and one of Latin America's literary and political giants, without suppressing his public missteps and personal flaws. López presents the definitive biography of the Cuban patriot and martyr. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the "Great Liberator" Simón Bolívar rivals Martí in stature and legacy. José Martí (1853–1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In a lively account that engrosses like a novel, López traces the full arc of Martí's eventful life, from