The Politics of Citing
José Martí, Oscar Wilde, and the Renaissance of Author Photography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Javier Guerrero (0000-0002-9991-3779, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 427-447 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2019.1654441 |
| OpenAlex | W3003548172 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
My article reexamines two chronicles by José Martí in which the Cuban intellectual discusses Oscar Wilde’s arrival in New York and his first public lecture there. I take a suspicious approach to these chronicles, proposing a critical reading of Martí’s decision to blindly cite the eccentric Irish dandy. Martí’s first chronicle about Wilde, which appeared in Caracas on 21 January 1882, can be read as an artifact that emphasizes the relevance of author photography. I argue that the photographs of Wilde that Napoleon Sarony took in New York City and the legal and other controversies that developed around them constitute a renaissance of author photography as a self-figurative vehicle and attempt at material autonomy by a new kind of writer in the public sphere. Photography composes a luminous skin that can not only operate on the materiality of the author but also respond to the lustful eyes that look at it
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dandy · Irish · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Panegyric · Photography · Poetry · Politics · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |