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The Influence of Emerson and Whitman on the Cuban Poet Jose Marti : Themes of Immigration, Colonialism, and Independence

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This study analyzes the impact of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman on Jose Marti and his search for a political and cultural design for postcolonial Latin America.

Marti integrated Emerson's call for individual self-reliance and for cultural independence from Europe, as well as Whitman's embrace of liberty and democracy and his poetry and prose reveal the formal and conceptual influence of the two North American writers.

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Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
0773447288 / 9780773447288
Hardback
861.5
01/06/2009
United States
312 pages
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