OSCAR MONTERO is Professor, Department of Spanish, City University of New York, USA Graduate Center/Lehman College. He is the author of Erotismo y Representacion en Julian del Casal (Rodopi Editions, 1993) and The Name Game: Writing/Fading Writer (UNC Press, 1988)

Introduction Coney Island: The Mislaying of the Dream Men, Women and Workers of the Mind Against Race Poetry is not a Luxury Panamericanism's Empty Train Marti Faces Death

Jose Marti, Cuban national hero, was one of Latin America's most influential litereary and political figures. There is currently no introductory overview to his complex body of works. Jose Marti: An Introduction offers such an introduction to Marti's most pertinent, enduring ideas, exploring his writing on race, gender, the relationship between Cuba and the US, and issues of displacement and bilingualism. The writing is accessible on the undergraduate level, yet Montero does not oversimplify ambiguities and contradictions of Marti's work and life.