Myth of Josï¿½ Martï¿½ Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba

Name: Myth of Josï¿½ Martï¿½ Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
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ISBN: 9780807855904

ISBN-10: 0807855901

ISBN-13: 9780807855904

Edition: 2005

Authors: Lillian Guerra

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Focusing on a period of history rocked by four armed movements, Lillian Guerra traces the origins of Cubans' struggles to determine the meaning of their identity and the character of the state, from Cuba's last war of independence in 1895 to the consolidation of U.S. neocolonial hegemony in 1921. Guerra argues that political violence and competing interpretations of the "social unity" proposed by Cuba's revolutionary patriot, Jos Mart, reveal conflicting visions of the nation--visions that differ in their ideological radicalism and in how they cast Cuba's relationship with the United States. As Guerra explains, some nationalists supported incorporating foreign investment and values, while…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Lillian Guerra is assistant professor of Caribbean history at Yale University. She is author of Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico: The Struggle for Self, Community, and Nation, 1898-1940 as well as two books of Spanish-language poetry.



Introduction : multiple nations, multiple Martis, 1895-1921



Mystic, messiah, and mediator : interpreting Marti through texts and contexts



Revolutionizing Cuba Libre, civilizing the Manigua, 1895-1898



Cuba Libre in crisis : the origins of U.S. imperial hegemony, 1898-1902



From revolution to involution : conflicting nationalisms at the crossroads of race and class



Political violence, liberal revolution, and the martyrdom of Marti, 1904-1906



Perceiving populism in a U.S. imperial context : the paradox of popular nationalist struggles, 1906-1909



Dependent nationalisms, the stillbirth of the Republic, and struggles over the myth of Marti, 1909-1921


Conclusion : lessons of the early Republic and the transcendence of the myth of Marti