The Correspondence of Bernard O'Dowd and Walt Whitman : Indigeneity and the Cosmopolitics of Settler Literary Nationalism single work   criticism  
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'This essay examines the correspondence of Walt Whitman and Bernard O'Dowd in two senses. First, it refers to the literal correspondence, which O'Dowd initiated in March of 1890 and that continued till late 1891 before Whitman's death the following March. Second, the paper will trace out the thematic correspondence between the work of the two poets, particularly with regard to a shared poetics of cosmopolitanism and nationalism...' (197)

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  • Epigraph:
    You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip/...
    I do not say one word against you, away back there where
    You stand,
    (You will come forward in due time by my side.)
    ...
    My spirit has passed in compassion and determination
    around the whole earth

    -Walt Whitman, A Salut Au Monde (Leaves 182-183)

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    y separately published work icon Antipodes vol. 26 no. 2 December 2012 Z1917463 2012 periodical issue 2012 pg. 197-202
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