Biographies of the national heroes José Rizal and José Martí provide a useful model for evaluating shifting interests in the project of nationalism in the Philippines and Cuba respectively. Through a postcolonial evaluation of selected biographies of Rizal and Martí, this article examines the constructedness of the designation "national hero."
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