2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: "José Martí and American Thinkers" with Anne Fountain

dc.contributor.authorFountain, Anne
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-10T14:03:09Z
dc.date.available2019-09-10T14:03:09Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-27
dc.descriptionPlease click on YouTube Video link above to stream the presentation.en_US
dc.description.abstractJosé Martí was a thoughtful and well-informed reader of books, newspapers and articles that reflected the intellectual as well as the political pulse of the United States from 1880 to 1895. His knowledge of U.S. authors and their works affected his life, his political perspectives and his writing. In the nearly fifteen years that Martí lived in the United States, he liberally absorbed ideas and concepts from American writers, especially Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, but also from proponents of social change such as Helen Hunt Jackson, who championed the cause of North American Indians. Emerson’s ideas permeate Martí’s work after 1882 and are a presence in the Cuban’s most popular poetry, Versos Sencillos. Whitman’s verses reinforced Martí’s deep humanitarian and democratic instincts and confirmed the importance of new poetry for a new hemisphere. American thinkers exerted a significant influence on the Cuban writer, and this presentation will offer notable examples.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/795
dc.identifier.urihttps://youtu.be/PRlYCKcShF8
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Tampaen_US
dc.subjectMartí, José, 1853-1895en_US
dc.subjectAmerican literatureen_US
dc.subjectEmerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882en_US
dc.subjectWhitman, Walt, 1819-1892en_US
dc.title2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: "José Martí and American Thinkers" with Anne Fountainen_US
dc.title.alternativeJosé Martí and the Immigrant Communities of Florida in Cuban Independence and the Dawn of the American Centuryen_US
dc.typeVideoen_US

Files