Of Subjects and Cowboys: Frontier and History in Pedro Mir's "Countersong to Walt Whitman"

Christopher Conway

doi:10.13008/2153-3695.1557

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Of Subjects and Cowboys: Frontier and History in Pedro Mir's "Countersong to Walt Whitman"

Abstract

Reads Pedro Mir's "Countersong to Walt Whitman" as a critique and renewal of the Whitmanian vision of democracy, arguing the poem "does not cast Anglo-America as an essentially antagonistic force but rather as a paragon of democracy taken hostage by monopoly capital."

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How to Cite: Conway, C. (1998) “Of Subjects and Cowboys: Frontier and History in Pedro Mir's "Countersong to Walt Whitman"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 15(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1557