Walt Whitman and his Caribbean interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir : song and countersong /
"Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman (1819-1892) and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them: the Cuban poet, essayist and revolutionary José Martí (1853-1895); the Trinidadian activist, historian and cu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2021
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| Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
v. 230. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman (1819-1892) and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them: the Cuban poet, essayist and revolutionary José Martí (1853-1895); the Trinidadian activist, historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James (1901-1989), and the Dominican poet Pedro Mir (1913-2000). Whitman and his Caribbean interlocutors are discussed against the background of the contradictions of capitalist modernity, as exemplified by the United States between the 1840s and the 1940s. Marx's exploration of the liberating and oppressive dimensions of capitalist expansion frames the discussion of each author and of Marti's, James's and Mir's responses to Whitman and, more generally, to North American capitalist and industrial civilization and its imperial projections"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (293 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004462748 9004462740 |
| ISSN: | 15701522 ; |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2021). |
