Rafael Bernabe

Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir

Song and Countersong

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them: the Cuban writer and revolutionary José Martí; Trinidadian activist, historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James, and Dominican poet Pedro Mir.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9789004462687
• ISBN-10: 9004462686
• Artikelnr.: 61556683

Autorenporträt

Rafael Bernabe, Ph.D. (1989), State University of New York, is professor at the University of Puerto Rico. His many publications on Puerto Rico include, (with César J. Ayala) Puerto Rico in the American Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Marx and the 'Transformation of History into World History'
2 'Within Me Latitude Widens, Longitude Lengthens': Whitman and the World
Created by Capital
3 'In Paths Untrodden': Whitman, Nature, Democracy and the 'Average Man of
To-day'
4 The 'Emptiness' of the Present: Marx, the 'Bourgeois Viewpoint' and Its
'Romantic Antithesis'
5 'This All-Devouring Modern Word': Whitman's Critique of Business
6 From Brooklyn Ferry to Brooklyn Bridge: José Martí and the 'Modern
Multiple Life'
7 'The Final Culmination of This Vast and Varied Republic': Whitman's
Failed Transcendence of the Present
8 Whitman: Inconsistent Democrat, Yet More Than a Democrat
9 A 'Damaged and Alien Civilization': Martí's Search for an Alternative
Modernity
10 C.L.R. James's Notes on American Civilization, or the Song of the C.I.O.
11 'Now Has Come the Hour of the Countersong': Pedro Mir and Walt Whitman
References
Index