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  - fast
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - R evolutionnaires
KW  - Am erique latine
KW  - Biographies
KW  - ram
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  -