"A Tribe Called Text: Whitman and Representing the American Indian Body" by Nicholas Soodik

WWQR > Vol. 22 (2004) > No. 2

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A Tribe Called Text: Whitman and Representing the American Indian Body

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Examines "the language with which Whitman represents the American Indian body" and argues that "the image of the Indian" marks Whitman's failure to "project actual physical presence in a literary text" because he "textualizes and . . . obscures the Indian body, aligning the indigenous American with the trope of writing and the composition of the text itself"; focuses on "Song of Myself," "Starting from Paumanok," "The Sleepers," and Whitman's story "The Half-Breed."

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Soodik, Nicholas. "A Tribe Called Text: Whitman and Representing the American Indian Body." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 22 (Fall 2004), 67-86.

Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol22/iss2/2

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