José Martí, Literature, and the United States
He waged a war armed with the most lethal of weapons. Cuba may awake in the eyes of the casual visitor as an outmoded yet intriguing...
The Downfall of Humanities: Who is to Blame?
The growing shortage of moral courage that irked Miguel de Unamuno may explain the crises at university campuses today. Those professors...
José Martí on Louisa May Alcott
José Martí’s admiration for Louisa May Alcott also points to America’s originality in literature and the thirst to read for wholehearted...
José Martí and "The Golden Age"
A practical sense of beauty led José Martí to render royal attention to the literature he wrote for children. In Latin America, José...
Hostos’ Philosophy and Modernism in Latin America
The late thinker sought to modernize the subcontinent by prefiguring a new breed of literary expression. Contending scholars have for...
Zora Neal Hurston Jumps at the Sun
Eatonville commemorates its most celebrated child, whose life and casting of the Black American heritage continues to ascend. It takes a...
Che Guevara and the Study of Philosophy in Latin America
The photogenic deity of guerrilla warfare also aimed to jumpstart a quieter revolution in Latin America, one based on the study of...
Frank Varela or the Off-Modern Poet
Brooklyn-born Diaspora poet Frank Varela circumvents the modernity hype by pioneering instead a voice that abolishes time. Frank Varela...
Balzac’s Women
Balzac’s approach in the depiction of his female characters sharpened the quest for human dignity. The nocturnal and caffeinated fury in...
Jubal's Kin: Central Florida's Golden Exponents of Roots Music
Music resonates from the young Amundsen kinfolks as if Traditional America had them genetically programmed from her most exquisite saps....