This book is a critical study of visual representations of Joseacute; Martiacute; The National Hero of Cuba ; and the discourses of power that make it possible for Martiacute;s images to be perceived as icons today. It argues that an observer of Martiacute;s icons who is immersed in the Cuban national narrative experiences a retrospective reconstruction of those images by means of ideologically formed national discourses of power. Also; the obsessive reproduction of Martiacute;s icons signals a melancholia for the loss of the martyr-hero. But instead of attempting to "forget Martiacute;;" the book concludes that the utopian impulse of his memory should serve to resist melancholia and to visualize new forms of creative re-significations of Martiacute; and; by extension; the nation.
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