To Walt Whitman, AmericaUniv of North Carolina Press, 12/10/2005 - 192 من الصفحات Walt Whitman "is America," according to Ezra Pound. More than a century after his death, Whitman's name regularly appears in political speeches, architectural inscriptions, television programs, and films, and it adorns schools, summer camps, truck stops, corporate centers, and shopping malls. In an analysis of Whitman as a quintessential American icon, Kenneth Price shows how his ubiquity and his extraordinarily malleable identity have contributed to the ongoing process of shaping the character of the United States. Price examines Whitman's own writings as well as those of writers who were influenced by him, paying particular attention to Whitman's legacies for an ethnically and sexually diverse America. He focuses on fictional works by Edith Wharton, D. H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Naylor, among others. In Price's study, Leaves of Grass emerges as a living document accruing meanings that evolve with time and with new readers, with Whitman and his words regularly pulled into debates over immigration, politics, sexuality, and national identity. As Price demonstrates, Whitman is a recurring starting point, a provocation, and an irresistible, rewritable text for those who reinvent the icon in their efforts to remake America itself. |
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Introduction | 3 |
CHAPTER 1 Whitman in Blackface | 9 |
CHAPTER 2 Edith Wharton and the Problem of Whitmanian Comradeship | 37 |
CHAPTER 3 Transatlantic Homoerotic Whitman | 56 |
CHAPTER 4 Xenophobia Religious Intolerance and Whitmans Storybook Democracy | 70 |
CHAPTER 5 Passing Fluidity and American Identities | 90 |
CHAPTER 6 Whitman at the Movies | 108 |
Notes | 139 |
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Alfred Jacob Miller American culture American Literature artist Ben Shahn Blue Highways body Boston Bowery Calamus chapter claims comrade comradeship cradle critics D. H. Lawrence Death on Long democracy depict discussion Eakins Edith Wharton Edward Carpenter erotic essay explores father fiction figure film film’s Flight to Canada Folsom Forster freedom Fullerton German Refugee Giles Gloria Naylor Griffith Higginson homoerotic homosexuality Ibid identity Indian invoke Ishmael Reed James Jean Toomer John Dos Passos Lawrence’s Leaves of Grass letter Linden Hills lines literary Love and Death lover Malamud male male-male man’s manuscript Maurice Miller mural narrative notebook notes novel Oskar passage passion Photograph poem poet poet’s political Quickskill Quoted Reed relationship remarked reprint Review role same-sex love Santayana scene Shahn slavery Song story Studies tion trapper Trapper’s Bride Walt Whitman Whit Whitmanian William Least Heat-Moon woman women words writers York University Press