{"product_id":"whitman-east-west-ed-folsom-9780877458210","title":"Whitman East \u0026 West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhitman East and West\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfirming the growing international spirit of American studies, the essays in \u003ci\u003eWhitman East and West\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ed Folsom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0877458219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780877458210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.76h x 6.84w x 0.94d","brand":"Ed Folsom","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065225130239,"sku":"9780877458210","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21ce0391-8509-46cc-a9af-2cd5f97cac3f.jpg?v=1768673806","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whitman-east-west-ed-folsom-9780877458210","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}