... American literatures, Whitman is used by artists of differing genders, sexualities, races, and ethnicities. The epigraphs Price chooses are all admiring, but he is more analyst than apologist, and he gives as much attention to Ishmael Reed, who rejects Whitman, as to Least Heat-Moon and Gloria Naylor...

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...Roberta Wolfson Abstract This essay examines two oppositional figures in Paul Beatty’s debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle (1996), and most recent novel, The Sellout (2015): the exalted race leader and the excoriated race traitor. Positioned at extreme ends of the spectrum of exceptionalism...

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..., this existential pulse plumbs the pursuit of freedom, choice, contingency, and action within the constraints of a social situation structured by racism. This is Ann Petry’s existential phenomenology of race: a sustained description in a literary idiom of the meaning of race as it is constituted as lived experience...

... theme that efforts to define Whitman as an essentially white or male or gay artist are reductive. Central to all the plural American literatures, Whitman is used by artists of differing genders, sexualities, races, and ethnicities. The epigraphs Price chooses are all admiring, but he is more analyst...

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