Juan A. Hererro Brasas

Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship (eBook, ePUB)

Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A giant of American letters, Walt Whitman is known both as a poet and, to a lesser extent, as a prophet of gay liberation. This revealing book recovers for today's reader a lost Whitman, delving into the original context and intentions of his poetry and prose. As Juan A. Herrero Brasas shows, Whitman saw himself as a founder of a new religion. Indeed, disciples gathered around him: the "hot little prophets" as they came to be called by early biographers.

Whitman's religion revolved around his concept of comradeship, an original alternative to the type of competitive masculinity emerging in the wake of industrialization and nineteenth-century capitalism. Shedding new light on the life and original message of a poet who warned future generation of treating him as a literary figure, Herrero Brasas concludes that Whitman was a moral reformer and grand theorist akin to other grand theorists of his day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438430126
• Artikelnr.: 60502438

Autorenporträt

Juan A. Herrero Brasas teaches ethics and religious studies at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of several books in Spanish, including Primera plana: La construcción de una cultura queer en España (Front Page: The Construction of a Queer Culture in Spain).