Rafael Bernabe

Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: Jose Mart, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir

Song and Counter-Song

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative and highly original study uses three famous Caribbean authors to explore Walt Whitman's engagement with capitalist modernity.

Produktdetails

• Historical Materialism
• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 230mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781642597660
• ISBN-10: 164259766X
• Artikelnr.: 63123153

Autorenporträt

Rafael Bernabe 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