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Item Cubanazo: José Martí and the Tropicalist Prose Style (Against Postmodernism)(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2009-08-30) Almenas, EgbertoThis article argues that José Martí’s brand of tropicalism (unrelated here to the Brazilian artistic movement) transcends the merely ornamental and activates in turn a ratifying device with respect to a deeper notion of Caribbeanness. The reading will contend that his discourse defies in retrospect a construct of the Caribbean fashioned after a postmodernist leveling that runs in tandem with a neoliberal model of globalization, and which he had already predicted and fought beforehand with astonishing accuracy.