TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garc�ia De la Torre, Armando,
TI  - Jos�e Mart�i and the global origins of Cuban independence
SN  - 9766405522
AV  - F1783.M38 G215 2015
U1  - 972.91/05092 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Kingston, Jamaica
PB  - The University of the West Indies Press
KW  - Mart�i, Jos�e,
KW  - Mart�i, Jos�e
KW  - Revolutionaries
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Biography
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - R�evolutionnaires
KW  - Am�erique latine
KW  - Biographies
KW  - 19e si�ecle
KW  - History
KW  - 1878-1895
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index; The global origins of Cuban independence -- Transmitting civic values to our future citizens: Mart�i's global histories for children -- The Hindu inspirations of a freedom fighter's spiritual and world outlook -- Mart�i and the divine nation-state -- Mart�i and the African diaspora -- Transmitting proper government: Ulysses S. Grant and the US Civil War in Mart�i's imagination
N2  - A nationalist campaigner, civil rights advocate, diplomat, lecturer and orator, journalist, poet, author of children's stories, visionary champion of anti-colonial Latin American and Caribbean thought, all are expressions of Jos�e Mart�i's (1853-95) extraordinary life in fighting for Cuba's definitive independence. This work opens a new path in studies of Mart�i's efforts to build a modern democratic Cuba by widening the lens under which the Cuban hero has been examined. In joining these different facets of Mart�i and by going beyond the national and hemispheric, Garc�ia de la Torre introduces the largely ignored global influences and dimensions that marked the revolutionary's work and ideas. From Mart�i's global histories for children to his adaptation of Hindu and Eastern conceptions, through a juxtaposition of The Bhagavad-Gita, to his relationships and inspirations from the African diaspora to the US Civil War and Ulysses S. Grant, Garc�ia de la Torre vividly reveals the global origins of Mart�i's ideas regarding governance, citizenship, independence and spirituality. In bridging the familiar and the individual with larger global patterns and processes of the late nineteenth century, this work gives birth to a modern Cuba understood from a truly global perspective
ER  -