Martí and the embodiment of Eros

Abstract

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.