Wilson Ivy Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet 9781609382360

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Автор: Wilson Ivy
Название: Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet
Перевод названия: Иви Вилсон: Черная Америка и Витман Нуар
ISBN: 9781609382360
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

Литературоведение: поэзия и поэты

ISBN-10: 1609382366
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 200
Вес: 0.37 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2014
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 234 x 179 x 17
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: poetry & poets
Подзаголовок: Black america and the good gray poet
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Walt Whitman’s now-famous maxim about “containing the multitudes” has often been understood as a metaphor for the democratising impulses of the young American nation. But did these impulses extend across the colour 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 Grass and Whitman’s other writings complicate his attempts to fully contain all of America’s subject-citizens within the national imaginary. As alluring as “containing the multitudes” might prove to be, African American poets and writers have been equally vexed by and attracted to Whitman’s acknowledgment of the promise and contradictions of the United States and their place within it.Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet explores the meaning of blacks and blackness in Whitman’s imagination and, equally significant, also illuminates the aura of Whitman in African American letters from Langston Hughes to June Jordan, Margaret Walker to Yusef Komunyakaa. The essays, which feature academic scholars and poets alike, address questions of literary history, the textual interplay between author and narrator, and race and poetic influence. The volume as a whole reveals the mutual engagement with a matrix of shared ideas, contradictions, and languages to expose how Whitman influenced African American literary production as well as how African American Studies brings to bear new questions and concerns for evaluating Whitman.

Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet, Wilson Ivy