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The Queer Dialectic Of Whitman’S Nation: "Let" In “Respondez”, Václav Paris
The Queer Dialectic Of Whitman’S Nation: "Let" In “Respondez”, Václav Paris
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This article considers Whitman's "Respondez" - perhaps his strangest poem. It seeks to explicate the poem by looking at his shifting use of the word "let." The article draws on studies of queer theory, nationalism, modernism, to reveal an unfamiliar and far more radical Whitman than we are familiar with.