Jose Marti - Modernity and Utopia

Abstract

I aim at analyzing the breakthroughs that brought Marti ́ to the Latin American cultural field by motivating him not only to redraw the civilization barbarism lines but also to redefine the connections between literature, history and politics. As I attempt to demonstrate, Martí deployed the newspaper chronic as a weapon to introduce a new discourse that sought to highlight the existence of an alternative modernity, whereby subaltern and forgotten groups could become social actors and protagonists of Latin American history.