WWQR > Vol. 9 (1991) > No. 4
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Abstract
Explores the question of "who is Whitman's biographical mother" by examining the poetry (especially "Song of Myself" and "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life") in the context of theoretical statements by Lacan, Kristeva, Roustang, and Jacqueline Rose; argues that Whitman's "mother-voice" is presented in the form of the "primitive semiotic" and that "she is the Self who by her own revelations legitimates Whitman's homosexual identity."
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Copyright © 1992 by The University of Iowa.
Recommended Citation
Wartofsky, Steven A.. "Whitman's Impossible Mother." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Spring 1992), 196-207.
Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol9/iss4/3
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Spring
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