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- Title
The Spirit of Martí in the Land of Coaybay.
- Authors
Price, Rachel
- Abstract
This article analyzes a shift in Republican-era Cuban literature from a preoccupation with romantic notions of sovereignty to concerns with neocolonial status and consumption, as read through representations of José Marti's relics and spirit. Examining works by José Antonio Ramos, Bonifacio Byrne, and José Lezama Lima, among others, I argue that Marti's ghostly return in post-1902 literature may be attributed to multiple, but related factors: (1) his prophetic measures were stymied in neocolonial Cuba; (2) the nation as such—even Martí's re-imagination of it—remains haunted by what it excludes; and (3) Martí's status as a specter, a material form of the immaterial, mirrors a Republican Cuba whose sovereignty and territory were eviscerated by foreign capital.
- Subjects
MARTI, Jose, 1853-1895; CUBAN literature; SOVEREIGNTY; IMPERIALISM; COLONIES; RAMOS, Antonio; LEZAMA Lima, Jose, 1910-1976
- Publication
Hispanic Review, 2009, Vol 77, Issue 2, p245
- ISSN
0018-2176
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/hir.0.0060