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Aberbach, David. National Poetry, Empires and War. New York: Routledge, 2015. [Chapter 9, "Walt Whitman, American Nationalism and the Revolutions of 1848-49" (203-225), explores what factors "caused Whitman to abandon the xenophobia of his age and, instead, define American national identity as inclusive of many foreign immigrants with their diverse cultures," and argues that "Whitman's bitterness" over the failure of the European revolutions of 1848-49 was a major contributing factor to his own revolutionary poetry, noting "striking parallels between the young Whitman and the young Karl Marx in the year of revolution, 1848," and proposing that "the defeat of European revolutionary liberalism was a trigger of Leaves of Grass between 1848 and 1855 and affected Whitman's perception of the Civil War in his later poems as he saw American internal discord as in international blow to democracy"; also analyzes how Leaves, though "composed in the revolutionary spirit of 1848-49," "is at the same time the poetry of a man driven from American politics in despair at its corruption," but ultimately "America, dynamic, growing, prospering and increasingly diverse, impressed the idealistic Whitman as a source of good, identical with the divinely blessed individual self'; concludes that "Whitman spoke for the uncertainties of American national identity after 1848," and that he, "more than most national poets, came to embody the thorny paradoxes of nationalism and internationalism, public man and tormented artist, Self and Universe."]
Acamovic, Bojana, ed. "Medjasi: Volt Vitman" ["Landmarks: Walt Whitman"]. Polja, casopis za knjizevnost i teoriju [Fields: A Journal of Literature and Theory\ 59, No. 493 (May-June 2015), 62-90. [This section on Whitman contains three pieces: Bojana Acamovic, "Budenje americke poezije Vitmanovim varvarskim krikom" ("The Awakening of American Poetry by Whitman's Barbaric Yawp"), 62-69; Walt Whitman, "Vlati trave 1855 - Predgovor" (Preface to 1855 Leaves of Grass, translated by Bojana Acamovic), 70-84; and Ed Folsom, "Knjige koje je pravio Vitman" ("The Books Whitman Made" and "The First Edition of Leaves of Grass," from Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman, translated by Bojana Acamovic), 85-90; in Serbian.]
Anderson, Fiona. "'A Trail of Drift and Debris': Traces of Whitman in the Correspondence Art of Ray Johnson." Journal of American Studies 49 (February 2015), 55-75. [Examines "New York Correspondence School" artist Ray Johnson's 1987 Long Island performance called...