El elogio a Heredia de José Martí: entre discurso político y literario”, in Revista Universidad de La Habana

Through the analysis of the speech that José Martí delivered in New York in 1889 in honor
of the Cuban poet José María Heredia y Heredia, we propose to analyse the rhetorical
characteristics of Martí’s discourse that is inserted, from an aesthetic point of view, in the
framework of the Modernism of the late 19th century. Furthermore, we aim at highlighting
how the author of Nuestra América, who proposes himself as an ideologist of the American
utopia of modernity, seeks to represent and found a new community by creating a new
national and continental imaginary. Methodologically, we will focus mainly on the most 278
recent studies related to argumentation theory and those related to the critical discourse
analysis.