Carlos Bulosan, Walt Whitman, and the Transnational Jeremiad

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Mai Wang
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In 1935, the Filipino American writer and activist Carlos Bulosan (19131956) was living in Los Angeles when he vowed to continue his informal literary education. Disillusioned by the racism and class-based discrimination he encountered everywhere on the West Coast, Bulosan turned to literature in order to understand the historical forces that had shaped his experiences as a field hand and urban laborer among his fellow Filipino American immigrants. Once he devoted himself to his autodidactic mission, Bulosan spent his days at the Los Angeles Public Library. As he details in his essay “My Education,” which was published posthumously in a 1979 issue of Amerasia devoted to Bulosan, reading allowed him to contextualize his marginalized life by turning to what many might consider an unlikely canonical source: the poetry of Walt Whitman. Bulosan recalls:
卡洛斯·布洛桑、沃尔特·惠特曼和过渡时期的耶利米
1935年,菲律宾裔美国作家和活动家卡洛斯·布罗桑(19131956)住在洛杉矶,他发誓要继续他的非正式文学教育。布洛桑对他在西海岸各地遇到的种族主义和基于阶级的歧视感到失望,他转向文学,以了解历史力量,这些力量塑造了他在菲律宾裔美国移民中作为一名田间工人和城市工人的经历。一旦他献身于他的自学使命,布洛桑就在洛杉矶公共图书馆度过了他的日子。正如他在他的文章《我的教育》中所详述的那样,阅读使他能够通过转向许多人可能认为不太可能的经典来源来了解自己被边缘化的生活:沃尔特·惠特曼的诗歌。Bulosan回忆道:
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期刊介绍: Walt Whitman Quarterly Review publishes essays about Whitman, his influence, his cultural contexts, his life, and his work. WWQR also publishes newly discovered Whitman manuscripts, and we publish shorter notes dealing with significant discoveries related to Whitman. Major critical works about Whitman are reviewed in virtually every issue, and Ed Folsom maintains an up-to-date and annotated "Current Bibliography" of work about Whitman, published in each issue.
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