American bards: Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet
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1. Verfasser: Whitley, Edward Keyes (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2010
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James M. Whitfield: the poet of slaves -- Eliza R. Snow: poet of a new American religion -- John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird): the first white aboriginal -- Walt Whitman: an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos
While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three of Whitman's contemporaries who adopted similar personae: James M. Whitfield, an African American separatist and abolitionist; Eliza R. Snow, a Mormon pioneer and women's leader; and John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee journalist and Native-rights advocate. These poets not only provide a counterpoint to the Whitmanian persona of the outsider bard, but they also reframe the criteria by which generations of scholars have characterize
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 248 pages)
ISBN:0807834211
0807899429
1469606356
9780807834213
9780807899427
9781469606354

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