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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bejel, Emilio, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martí, José, 1853-1895--Monuments--Social aspects--Cuba.

Martí, José.

Martí, José, 1853-1895--Portraits--Social aspects--Cuba.

Martí, José, 1853-1895.

Memorialization--Social aspects--Cuba.

Memorialization.

Memorials--Social aspects--Cuba.

Memorials.

Visual sociology--Cuba.

Visual sociology.

Social psychology--Cuba.

Social psychology.

Memorials--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Portraits.

Monuments.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

xvii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

José Martí: Images of Memory and Mourning 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 Marti's images to be perceived as icons today. Bejel argues that an observer of Marti'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. The obsessive reproduction of Marti's icons signals a melancholia for the loss of the martyr-hero. But instead of attempting to forget Marti, 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 Marti and, by extension, the nation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Gaze, intentionality, and manipulation

Battling for the national icon

The filming of a memory

Melancholia for Martí

Afterthoughts : resisting Cuban melancholia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230340756

023034075X

OCLC:

778314740