Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Copyright Page / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Dedication / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Introduction / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 1 Marx and the 'Transformation of History into World History' / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 2 'Within Me Latitude Widens, Longitude Lengthens': Whitman and the World Created by Capital / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 3 'In Paths Untrodden': Whitman, Nature, Democracy and the 'Average Man of To-day' / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 4 The 'Emptiness' of the Present: Marx, the 'Bourgeois Viewpoint' and Its 'Romantic Antithesis' / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 5 'This All-Devouring Modern Word': Whitman's Critique of Business / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 6 From Brooklyn Ferry to Brooklyn Bridge: José Martí and the 'Modern Multiple Life' / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 7 'The final Culmination of This Vast and Varied Republic': Whitman's Failed Transcendence of the Present / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 8 Whitman: Inconsistent Democrat, Yet More Than a Democrat / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 9 A 'Damaged and Alien Civilization': Martí's Search for an Alternative Modernity / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 10 C.L.R. James's Notes on American Civilization, or the Song of the C.I.O. / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Chapter 11 'Now Has Come the Hour of the Countersong': Pedro Mir and Walt Whitman / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Back Matter -- References / Author: Rafael Bernabe -- Index / Author: Rafael Bernabe.

Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman (1819-1892) and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them: the Cuban poet, essayist and revolutionary José Martí (1853-1895); the Trinidadian activist, historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James (1901-1989), and the Dominican poet Pedro Mir (1913-2000). Whitman and his Caribbean interlocutors are discussed against the background of the contradictions of capitalist modernity, as exemplified by the United States between the 1840s and the 1940s. Marx's exploration of the liberating and oppressive dimensions of capitalist expansion frames the discussion of each author and of Martí's, James's and Mir's responses to Whitman and, more generally, to North American capitalist and industrial civilisation and its imperial projections.

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