SPAN 4950 - [José Marti:Modernity and Myth]

(crosslisted) LSP 4950

Spring. Not offered: 2022-2023. Next offered: 2023-2024. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Conducted in Spanish.

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Political exile, anti-imperialist prophet, national hero, revolutionary martyr, poetic innovator, journalist, apostle, Latinx migrant. Ever iconic, at time ironic, the figure of Cuban writer José Martí has been both monumentalized and malleable, a frequently appropriated emblem of a spectrum of ideological positions. Through the lenses of Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and trans-American literary and cultural studies, this course explores Martí’s life and work and their translation into art, film, politic, and music from the late nineteenth century until the present. Having resided in New York for fifteeen years, Martí’s work and image offer unparalleled insights into the politics of gender, race class, imperialism, identity, immigration. citizenship, technology and the human spirit in the Americas.