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258 pages, 19 drawings, 12 b&w photos, references, index, 2002
$46.00 cloth 0-87745-821-9, 978-0-87745-821-0
$10.00 or $29.95 e-book, 1-58729-421-4, 978-1-58729-421-1
About our e-book
“This original collection will become one of the landmark studies of the poet in the twenty-first century. It presents the work of some of the best Whitman scholars and brings together voices from the East and West on this literary giant.”—Jerome Loving, author of Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself
In Whitman East and West, fifteen prominent scholars track the surprising ways in which Whitman's poetry and prose continue to be meaningful at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Covering a broad range of issues—from ecology to children's literature, gay identity to China's May 4th Movement, nineteenth-century New York politics to the emerging field of normality studies, Mao Zedong to American film—each original essay opens a previously unexplored field of study, and each yields new insights by demonstrating how emerging methodologies and approaches intersect with and illuminate Whitman's ideas about democracy, sexuality, America, and the importance of literature.
Confirming the growing international spirit of American studies, the essays in Whitman East and West developed out of a landmark conference in Beijing, the first major conference in China to focus on an American poet. Scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America set out to track the ways in which Whitman's poetry has become part of China's cultural landscape as well as the literary landscapes of other countries. By describing his assimilation into other cultures and his resulting transformation into a hybrid poet, these essayists celebrate Whitman's multiple manifestations in other languages and contexts.
CONTRIBUTORS
Roger Asselineau
Sherry Ceniza
Betsy Erkkila
Walter Grünzweig
Ou Hong
Guiyou Huang
M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Robert K. Martin
James E. Miller, Jr.
Joel Myerson
Wang Ning
Kenneth M. Price
Liu Rongqiang
Liu Shusen
M. Wynn Thomas
Ed Folsom is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Iowa, author and editor of many books and articles on American poets, editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and codirector of the Walt Whitman Archive. |
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