Jos Mart And Us Writers Anne Fountain by Anne Fountain 9780813026176, 0813026172 instant download after payment.

Cuba's patriot and most famous writer, Jose Marti, lived in the United States for 15 years and wrote extensively about 19th-century American writers. This meticulous guide to Marti's multiple connections with U.S. literature provides for the first time in English a comprehensive analysis of his critiques of 40 American authors and his translations of American prose and poetry. Fountain presents an overview of his writing about American authors--from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James to John Burroughs--and documents in Marti's writing previously unidentified translations from American authors. Separate chapters cover Emerson, Whitman, and Longfellow; other authors are grouped under Romanticism and Realism. Drawing on the 28 volumes of Marti's Complete Works, Fountain offers an extensive discussion of the Cuban writer's aesthetic precepts and preferences and demonstrates that his fascination with American authors is central to understanding his views of U.S. culture. The book includes a sketch of Marti's life, a description of his years in the United States, and his observations about life in North America during…