Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: Jose Marti, C.L.R.
James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman (1819-1892)
and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them. These three
interlocutors-the Cuban poet, essayist and revolutionary Jose Marti
(1853-1895); the Trinidadian activist, historian and cultural
critic C.L.R. James (1901-1989); and the Dominican poet Pedro Mir
(1913-2000-all saw in the famous American poet and pacifist a key
lens through which to understand North American capitalism and is
imperial projections. Whitman and his Caribbean interlocutors are
discussed against the backdrop of capitalist modernity's
contradictions, as exemplified by the United States between the
1840s and the 1940s. Bernabe deftly uses Marx's exploration of the
liberating and oppressive dimensions of capitalist expansion to
frame his discussion of each individual author and of Marti's,
James's, and Mir's responses to Whitman.
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