Cross-cultural visions in African American literature : West meets East

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Davis Library (8th floor)

Call Number
PS153.B53 C79 2011
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Stone Center Library

Call Number
PS153.B53 C79 2011 c. 2
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Summary

The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was the reading and writing of haiku. Here, esteemed contributors investigate the impact of Eastern philosophy and religion on African American writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, offering a fresh field of literary inquiry.

Contents

  • Acknowledgments p. vii
  • Introduction p. ix
  • Summaries of Essays p. xxi
  • Part I Essays on Poetry
  • 1 Richard Wright's Haiku, Zen, and the African ôPrimal Outlook upon Lifeö p. 3 Yoshinobu Hakutani
  • 2 Richard Wright's Haiku, Japanese Poetics, and Classical Chinese Poetry p. 23 Jianqing Zheng
  • 3 Wordsworthian Nature Poetry, Ashanti Culture, and Richard Wright's Haiku: This Other World p. 45 Peter Landino
  • 4 Cross-Cultural Poetics: Sonia Sanchez's Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums p. 65 Yoshinobu Hakutani
  • 5 Jean Toomer Revisited in James Emanuel's Postmodernist Jazz Haiku p. 81 Virginia Whatley Smith
  • Part II Essays on Ideology
  • 6 The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man p. 111 Yoshinobu Hakutani
  • 7 West, East, Africa: Richard Wright's Native Son and Classic Movie Monsters p. 129 Mera Moore
  • 8 Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo through Confucianism p. 157 Yupei Zhou
  • 9 ôA Beautiful Black Butterflyö: Eastern Aesthetics and Postmodernism in Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring p. 177 Preston Park Cooper
  • 10 ôAll Narratives Are Lies, Man, an Illusionö: Buddhism and Postmodernism Versus Racism in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and Dreamer p. 191 Preston Park Cooper
  • Contributors p. 205
  • Index p. 207

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