Cross-cultural visions in African American literature: west meets east

The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange thathas taken place in modern and postmodern times was the reading and writing ofhaiku. 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. Yoshinobu Hakutani is a Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University. INDICE: Part I: Essays on Poetry * Richard Wright's Haiku, Zen, and the African - Yoshinobu Hakutani * Richard Wright's Haiku, Japanese Poetics, and Classical Chinese Poetry - Jianqing Zheng * Wordsworthian Nature Poetry, Ashanti Culture, and Richard Wright's Haiku: This Other World - Peter Landino * Cross-Cultural Poetics: Sonia Sanchez's Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums - Yoshinobu Hakutani * Jean Toomer Revisited in James Emanuel's Post-Modernist Jazz Haiku - Whatley Smith * Part II: Essays on Ideology * The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man - Yoshinobu Hakutani * West, East, Africa: Richard Wright's Native Son and Classic Movie Monsters - Mera Moore * Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo through Confucianism - Yupei Zhou * 'A Beautiful Black Butterfly': Eastern Aesthetics and Postmodernism in Ishmael Reed's Japaneseby Spring - Preston Park Cooper * 'All Narratives Are Lies, Man, an Illusion': Buddhism and Postmodernism versus Racism in Charles Johnson's Middle Passageand Dreamer - Preston Park Cooper.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11341-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 242
• Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés