Walt Whitman & the World

Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the Worlddemonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.Allen, Gay W. is the author of 'Walt Whitman & the World ', published 1995 under ISBN 9780877454984 and ISBN 0877454981.