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Whitman noir : black America and the good gray poet / edited by Ivy G. Wilson ; design by Richard Hendel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Iowa Whitman series.
- Iowa Whitman Series, 1556-5610
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Black people in literature.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 the first edition of Leaves of Grass, the poet espoused a rather progressive outlook on race relations within the United States. However, as time passed, he steered away from issues of race and blackness altogether. These changing depictions and representations of African Americans in the poetic space of Leaves of
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781609382629
- 1609382625
- OCLC:
- 880350881
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