Title José Martí : images of memory and mourning / Emilio Bejel

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 163 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Gaze, intentionality, and manipulation -- Battling for the national icon -- The filming of a memory -- Melancholia for Martí -- Afterthoughts : resisting Cuban melancholia Summary This book is a critical study of visual representations of José Martí, the National Hero of Cuba, and the discourses of power that make it possible for Martí's images to be perceived as icons today. It argues that an observer of Martí's icons who is immersed in the Cuban national narrative experiences a retrospective reconstruction of those images by means of ideologically formed national discourses of power. Also, the obsessive reproduction of Martí's icons signals a melancholia for the loss of the martyr-hero. But instead of attempting to "forget Martí'", the book concludes that the utopian impulse of his memory should serve to resist melancholia and to visualize new forms of creative re-significations of Martí and, by extension, the nation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Monuments -- Social aspects -- Cuba Martí, José, 1853-1895 -- Portraits -- Social aspects -- Cuba SUBJECT Martí, José, 1853-1895 fast Subject Memorialization -- Social aspects -- Cuba Memorials -- Social aspects -- Cuba Visual sociology -- Cuba Social psychology -- Cuba Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- Latin-American Spanish. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- Latin-American Spanish. HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- Cuba. Literature. Memorials -- Social aspects Portraits -- Social aspects Social psychology Visual sociology Cuba Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137122650 113712265X

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