Martí and his place in time: a discourse on method and polemics in Martí studies
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[1] Illinois State University
Illinois State University
Township of Normal, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: CiberLetras: revista de crítica literaria y de cultura, ISSN-e 1523-1720, Nº. 50, 2024
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article builds on Ottmar Ette's groundbreaking study on the historical reception of Cuban patriot and poet José Martí. Ette's work covers Martí's reception from the early days of the first Cuban Republic until the early 1990s. His final chapter discusses a critical impasse in Martí studies and recommends the desacralization of the Cuban patriot's image to move research forward. Soon after the publication of Ette's work, there was a plethora of research on the Cuban poet’s legacy, both in traditional university presses and in web-based journals. This expansion in the dialogue brought renewed debates about the uses (and abuses) of Martí’s image. In contrast to Ette’s call for desacralization, this article focuses on the methodological differences that emerged in the interdisciplinary debates that pitted historians against literary humanists. This article contends that what can move research on Martí forward are the contextual readings of his work that frame him as one of the most significant Latin American writers of the late 19th century.
