Part I. Reading the other America: history, translation, and political landscapes -- "Nuestra América" and the crisis of Latin Americanism / Enrico Mario Santí -- "He has not made himself known to me": José Martí, U.S. history, and the question of translation / Esther Allen -- Social and cultural textualizations of the modern Martí project: the North American chronicles / Ivan Schulman -- Emerson and Martí: close readings, context and translation / Anne Fountain -- Creating superman: Martí, Nietzsche, and Whitman / Georg Schwarzmann -- Politics, justice, and style: José Martí reads Mark Twain / Ariela Schnirmajer -- Bancroft, Motley, Martí and American renaissance historiography / Rafael Rojas Gutiérrez -- Part II. Defining and building the modern nation: race, punishment, and poetics -- The city unmakes empires: José Martí's Latina/o urbanism / Laura Lomas -- Fear and gratitude: Martí's Chronicles in patria / Jorge Camacho -- José Martí: a rendering of black issues in the United States / Oleski Miranda Navarro -- José Martí, our revolutionary Victor Hugo? / Reinaldo Suárez -- Vile brothers: exclusion in José Martí's republican dream / Francisco Morán -- Modern tensions in the poetics of José Martí / Ryan Anthony Spangler -- Martí and his "Amor de ciudad grande": notes on the poetics of versos libres / Roberto González Echevarría -- José Martí and the call of technology in "Amor de ciudad grande" / David P. Laraway. |