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This article explores Jose Marti's political mobilization in general and extrapolates Marti's praxis specifically. A multifold analysis is conducted as follows: first, the analysis explores the narrative of Jose Marti regarding the development of his consciousness and his role in changing the historical trajectory of Cuba; second, the analysis examines Marti's political praxis in engaging with the geopolitical semiotic field and mobilizing Cuban cultural communities for the Cuban War of Independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

One investigated on the drama "Abdala" of José Martí, with the objective that the theater instructors, when directing their setting in scene converse with the children during the stage of the table work, so that they understand it and assume active and reflexively the points of view that will defend when representing it. The result consists on a group of answers to analytic questions on "Abdala ", and on the place of the theater in José's work Martí whose study has been implemented in the Degree in Education, Instructor of Art of the University of Matanzas, that which viabiliza the employment of the work martiana in the professional formation of the art instructors and its preparation to direct the setting efficiently in scene of "Abdala " in each Cuban school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

T This article refers to the lecture given by Dr. Orestes Architect of the Castillo del Prado in the Villena Library, Old Havana, on May 19, 2015, commemorating one hundred and twenty years after the fall in combat of José Martí Pérez. From his vast professional experience, the speaker commented on the reflections of the National Hero on two works under construction in New York; the Brooklyn Bridge and the elevated railroad of that city. The article emphasizes the educational value of the activity and points out how special it was for the entire audience to have been able to witness a teacher talking about another teacher. This work also serves as a well-deserved tribute to "Profe Orestes", as his disciples call him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Private urban agricultural ventures, initially a spontaneous response to food shortages during the Special Period, soon became a state-sponsored project, related to global notions of sustainability. This article explores the relationship between sustainability discourse and its local dimensions to reveal the role of sustainability in the reformulation of the Revolution. Urban gardeners engage with international discourses of sustainability and interact with the Cuban state's articulation of these discourses. While this process forces urban gardeners to adapt to the changing meanings of growing food, it also provides a different language through which gardeners define themselves, especially in the context of a changing relationship with the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The trip to the United States involved Martí in a journey to another language. To adapt himself to the new space that welcomed his long exile in the U.S., he had to acquire the language that he had once called "barbaric," English. This article explores not only the translations José Martí made of those who, either as precursors, founders or followers were linked to the Transcendentalist circle, but also their thoughts about the mechanisms involved in the translation process. From his definition, in the sense that translating is transpensar a paper, it is that Martí's translation style and the new perspective that it brings to the original work are considered. Finally, the study of those translations is essential to set up a thinking network among Martí, Emerson and Whitman and, thus, to complicate and reconsider the influence that a tradition of Anglo-Saxon origin had on the development of Martí's literature and thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

When following the construction of the generic and sexual female image in the works of José Martí, we see that this image is inscribed in a context of ambivalence made even more obscure by other layers of meaning. We could place these works in the context of Cuban erotic writing, which is a corpus that is characterized by what is deemed as prohibited and at the same time by conservative values. The evident repression in Martí's discourse on Cuban independence hides a different source of anguish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The teaching of our national history is a main content in the curricular plans of Cuban higher education. Its importance is very much recognized and promoted by the Municipality University Seats (MUS), institutions that demand a different design and conceptualisation of the methodological activity due to its particular pedagogical model and teaching capacities. The creation of the MUS has required new ways of planning, structuring and putting into practice the teaching process --experiences that could be tested in other spaces of the Cuban university. This article explores one of these experiences. It analyses the design, development and assessment of the seminar "Josθ Martí: life, ideas and revolution" -essential activity in the Cuban History course that is taken by the majority of the first year students inscribed in the MUS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The history of Cuba is one of conquest and rebellion. Since the arrival of Columbus, it has had two colonial masters: Spain and the United States. Spain, after the collapse of its empire, ceased to be a threat to the peoples of America. Now, the Spanish are among the principal investors in Cuba, and make up a high percentage of tourists to the island. The United States, engaged in empire-building as sole superpower and continuing to pursue a half-century-old policy of regime change in Cuba, is still seen by the Cubans as the greatest threat to their independence and sovereignty. This article reviews the history of relations between the two countries, seeking to contextualize their social origins and political evolution, concluding that an improvement in relations is unlikely absent a profound change in the political economy of either country, or of both, a change that could occur internally or be caused by external factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

In this article, the main contributions to the development of the Cuban psychological science made by Félix Varela and José Martí are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]