Dash me with Amorous Wet, I can Repay You’
Relational Ethics, Queer Ecology, and Walt Whitman’s Poetics of Trans-human Kinship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901125 |
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| Authors | Caleb Murray (John Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jsrnc.22963 |
| OpenAlex | W4308620383 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
Walt Whitman’s poetry is famously full of ‘self’ and self-contradicting: ‘Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)’ The scholarly attention to paradox and contradiction often takes the form of an attention to various ‘binaries’ in Whitman’s prose and poetry; well-trod binaries include body-soul, sacred-profane, nature-culture, and woman-man. However, a queer attention to the poetic construction of such binaries reveals them to be fluid and ultimately nonbinary. Whitman and his speakers construct binaries that relate to religion, gender, and nature, but in poeticizing the construction of binary logic (e.g., man-woman), Whitman and his speakers reveal such purportedly self-contained and discrete domains to be open, fluid, and co-constituting. Recognizing the poetic performance of ‘binary’ logic will reshape reader’s understanding of ethical and political implications of Whitman’s queerly relational nature ethics
Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library · Contradiction · Epistemology · Literature · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Reflexive pronoun · Soul · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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