4. Martí’s ‘‘Mock-Congratulatory Signs’’: Walt Whitman’s Occult Artistry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface: Criticar es Amar: Translation and Self-Criticism ix
4. Introduction: Metropolitan Debts, Imperial Modernity, and Latino Modernism 1
5. 1. Latino American Postcolonial Theory from a Space In-Between 41
6. 2. La América with an Accent: North Americans, Spanish-Language Print Culture, and American Modernities 83
7. 3. The ‘‘Evening of Emerson’’: Martí’s Postcolonial Double Consciousness 130
8. 4. Martí’s ‘‘Mock-Congratulatory Signs’’: Walt Whitman’s Occult Artistry 177
9. 5. Martí’s Border Writing: Infiltrative Translation, Late Nineteenth- Century ‘‘Latinness,’’ and the Perils of Pan-Americanism 216
10. Conclusion. Cross-Pollinating ‘‘Dust on Butterfly’s Wings’’: Latina/o Writing and Culture Beyond and After Martí 278
11. Notes 285
12. Bibliography 347
13. Index 375