José Martí entre dos crónicas
José Martí’s production of chronicles in the United Sates for two Latin American newspapers, El Partido Liberal from México y La Nación from Argentina, was subjected to various editorial policies. Until now, the mechanisms that controlled Martí’s journalistic work have not been studied sufficien...
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| Publicado en: | Revista de Literaturas Modernas |
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| Sumario: | José Martí’s production of chronicles in the United Sates for two Latin
American newspapers, El Partido Liberal from México y La Nación from
Argentina, was subjected to various editorial policies. Until now, the
mechanisms that controlled Martí’s journalistic work have not been studied
sufficiently to understand certain radical changes in his thinking. On
September 2, 1886, Martí wrote an article for La Nación concerning the
tragic events that had occurred in Chicago following a workers’ protest. In
this chronicle, Martí does not hesitate to assign the anarchists’ responsibility
for the death of a policeman. However, in a second chronicle that he
submitted a year later, Martí expresses a radical shift in his perspective
regarding the anarchists and criticizes the causes that had pushed them to
radicalize the workers’ movement. The present essay examines how Martí
modifies his position as he writes under different editorial policies that
variously approve or disapprove of his views, and discusses the narrative
strategies that he superstitiously employs to overcome these constraints.
The content of the second piece for La Nación is analyzed as the
materialization of the autonomic will of the modernista writer, and as an
affirmation that marks a fundamental shift in Martí’s life journey, which in a
short period of time will lead him to participate in the war for independence
in Cuba in 1895. |
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