2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Jose Martí: Life and Works” with James López
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2019-06-24
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The University of Tampa
Abstract
This presentation will provide an integrated portrait of José Martí’s life and work in his historical
and intellectual context, living on the edge of the two Americas, and of two epochs. Martí gave
his life in the heroic pursuit of national liberation, but unlike the heroes of South American
independence at the start of the 19th century, Martí did so with greater awareness than any other
Latin American of his time of the full force of 20th century modernity that was on the verge of
being unleashed upon the world, “the giant with seven-league boots” as he called it in his
extraordinary essay “Our America.” He learned this as an exile in New York City at the height of
the Gilded Age, where he lived for fifteen years, and before that as an exile in Venezuela, and
before that in Guatemala, and before that in Mexico, and before that in Spain, always one step
ahead of imprisonment and death. His fascinating life, and the writing it produced, is
paradigmatic and exemplary, and will be carefully and coherently traced in this lecture.
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Please click on YouTube Video link above to stream the presentation.
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Martí, José, 1853-1895, Americans--Latin America--Biography