Hemispheric Whitman

Литература двух Америк

Delphine Rumeau¹ 

[1] University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France;

关键词: whitman;    reception;    hemispheric studies;    rubén darío;    armando vasseur;    pablo neruda;    rosaire dion-lévesque;    langston hughes;    león felipe;    pedro mir;   

DOI  :  10.22455/2541-7894-2020-8-235-264

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Whitman’s reception is crucial to the history of World Literature in the 20th century. It involves especially transatlantic and hemispheric circulation. This article focuses on the latter and explores the importance of Whitman’s poetry for American literatures and cultures, from Northern America (Quebec) to Latin America. Whitman was central to the development of a continental poetry and to the emergence of long poems in free verse that would embrace the immensity of American nature. Yet poets rapidly expressed the will not only to extend Whitman’s poetry to the North or to the South, but to complement or even to correct it (especially in Brazil). In this process, Whitman unexpectedly became a reference for Black Americas. This move involves more political aspects, and Whitman was indeed strongly appropriated for partisan motives in Latin America, especially by communist poets like Pablo Neruda. The editorial policy towards Whitman, especially in the USSR and Eastern European countries, constructed the ideologically correct image of the poet who had foreseen communism. Our point is to show how entangled this reception is, what back and forth movements it involves, how Latin American interpretations had an impact on US readings, but also that a few transatlantic detours are necessary to clarify this hemispheric story.

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