Whitman Noir : Black America and the Good Gray Poet /

Walt Whitman's now-famous maxim about "containing the multitudes" has often been understood as a metaphor for the democratizing impulses of the young American nation. But did these impulses extend across the color line? Early in his career, especially in the manuscripts leading up to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.
Slavery in literature.
Race relations in literature.
African Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Erasing race : the lost Black presence in Whitman's manuscripts / Ed Folsom
  • The "Creole" episode : slavery and temperance in Franklin Evans / Amina Gautier
  • Kindred darkness : Whitman in New Orleans / Matt Sandler
  • Walt Whitman, James Weldon Johnson, and the violent paradox of US progress / Christopher Freeburg
  • Postwar America, again / Ivy G. Wilson
  • Transforming the kosmos : Yusef Komunyakaa musing on Walt Whitman / Jacob Wilkenfeld
  • For the sake of people's poetry : Walt Whitman and the rest of us / June Jordan
  • On Whitman, Civil War memory, and my South / Natasha Trethewey
  • Whitman : year one / Rowan Riccardo Phillips
  • Afterword : at Whitman's grave / George B. Hutchinson.

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