Rafael Bernabe
Biographical Note
Readership
All interested in the poetry of Walt Whitman, writings of José Martí, C.L.R James, and Pedro Mir, U.S. history of the 1800s, the conflict leading to the Civil War and Reconstruction, Caribbean and Latin American literature, as well as Marxist analysis of culture and literature.
Table of Contents
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