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{ 201 } INDEX Aaron, David, 168 abolitionism: Beecher and, 67–68; James’s discussion of, 119; temperance and, 78n.22; Whitman and, 7–8, 62, 67–68, 90, 168 Abrahams, Roger D., 73 Adams, Gleason R. W., 64 African Americans: as Civil War soldiers, 19–21; in New Orleans culture, 57–64; portrayal of in Whitman’s writing, 10–26; Whitman ’s visits with black soldiers, 20–21, 29n.36 African American writing: Afro- Creole culture in, 65–66; body images in, 94–100; Ellison’s position in, 105–120; importance of language in, 106–113; Whitman’s influence in, vii–xvii, 125–146, 155–161 Afro- Creole culture in New Orleans: and Catholic church, 64–65, 73–74; political dimensions of voodoo in, 74; Whitman’s poetics and, 58–77 Alboni, Marietta, 113 Alexander, Elizabeth, xvii Allen, Gay Wilson, 36–37, 52n.19 Along This Way (Johnson), 194 An American Novel and Its Tradition (Chase), 114 An American Primer (Whitman), 59–60, 113, 121n.22 American Civilization (James), 104, 119–120, 194 American Experience (television documentary), 124, 126, 128, 134, 189 American Renaissance, 105, 114 American Renaissance (Matthiessen ), 114 Amherst College, 33 antislavery movement: poets in, 28n.22; Whitman and, 7–8, 62, 168 Arac, Jonathan, 58–59, 67 Arvin, Newton, 105, 114 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 163 Attucks, Crispus, 118 Augst, Thomas, 36 Augusta, Alexander, 18–19 The Autobiography of an Ex- Coloured Man (Johnson), xv, 84, 94–100, 112, 115 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 80n.50 Baldwin, James, 94, 105 Beach, Christopher, 28n.22, 189 Beckwith, Byron de la, 171 Beecher, Henry Ward, 67–68 Beecher, Lyman, 34, 41–42 Bellow, Saul, 105 Benjamin, Walter, 62–63 Bhagavad Gita, 59, 153 Bible poetry, 152 The Big Sea (Hughes), x, 192 Bishop, Elizabeth, 161 Black Arts movement, xii “Blackbirding on the Hudson” (Komunyakaa ), 127, 132, 143–145 “Black Caesar” racial epithet, 5–7 black culture: production of, 96–100; Whitman’s gaze and, vii–xvii black fireman, in Whitman’s “The Sleepers,” xv, 12, 19 { 202 } Index “Black Lucifer,” in Whitman’s manuscripts, 11–12 black presence, in Whitman’s manuscripts, 3–26 black soldiers in Civil War: erasure of history concerning, 20–21, 165–171; Whitman’s visits with, 20–21, 29n.36; in Whitman’s writing, 122n.30 Blake, or The Huts of America (Delany), 65–66, 72, 75 Blight, David, 166, 168 Blue Notes (Komunyakaa), 126 body imagery in Whitman’s work: black body images, xvi; bleaching of, 20; intemperance and corrosion of, 34–36, 41–42, 48–50; in Leaves of Grass, 7, 9; mutilation and disintegration of bodies, 84–87, 93–94; nude aesthetics and, 90–91, 139; racial violence and, 89–94; slavery and, 60, 69–70; soul- body union, 65–66 Bontemps, Arna, xvii The Book of American Negro Poetry, vii–viii Borges, Jorge Luis, xvi–xvii “A Boston Ballad” (Whitman), 120 Boukman, Dutty, 74 Bowen, Sayles Jenks, 25–26 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 54, 62 Brooks, Van Wyck, 105, 114 Brown, William Wells, 69–70 Bucke, Richard Maurice, 181 Buffalo News, 145 Cable, George Washington, 87 “Calamus” section in Leaves of Grass, 104, 114–115, 141 Calhoun, John C., 111–112 Callaloo (journal), 126, 189 The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 152 capitalism: Ellison on labor and, 119–120; Whitman’s writing in context of, 104 Carlyle, Thomas, 25, 30n.56, 68 catalogs: Ellison’s use of, 116–118; Whitman’s use of, 109–113 CBS News, 124, 146n.4 “The Ceaseless Rings of Walt Whitman ” (Hughes), xi “Celebration of Walt Whitman,” 132–133 The Chameleon Couch (Komunyakaa ), 143 Chase, Richard, 114 Chesnutt, Charles, 90 “Christ likeness” (Bucke), 181 citizenship for African Americans: Ellison’s views on, 118–119; Whitman ’s ambivalence concerning, 13, 23–25 civil rights movement, 105–106 Civil War: civil rights movement and, 105–106; Southern attitudes concerning, 165–171; in Whitman ’s writing, 85–94, 105–106, 118–119, 169–171 class hierarchy and slavery, 68–69 Cleveland, Grover, 172 Code Noir, 72 Cold War, 104–120 Collect (Whitman), 60–61; “Notes Left Over” section, 26 Collins, Billy, 124, 146n.4 Collins, Michael, 126, 131–132, 189 Communism, Whitman’s writing in context of, 104–105 Compensated Emancipation Proclamation , 24 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 140–141 Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa (Hanshaw), 126 Cosmos (Humboldt), 133 Coviello, Peter, 86–87, 136 Crane, Stephen, 114 Creole episode in Franklin Evans, 32–33, 37–50, 52n.24, 60–61 Creoles in New Orleans: culture of, [44.204.65.189] Project MUSE (2024-03-29...