Rafael Bernabe

Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: Jose Mart, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman (1819-1892) and three Caribbean authors who engaged with them. These three interlocutors—the Cuban poet, essayist, and revolutionary Jose Mart (1853-1895); the Trinidadian activist, historian, and cultural critic C.L.R. James (1901-1989); and the Dominican poet Pedro Mir (1913-2000)—all saw in the famous American...