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Author:

Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Title:

Cross-cultural visions in African American modernism : from spatial narrative to jazz haiku / Yoshinobu Hakutani.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

ix, 251 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--Foreign influences.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.

Contents:

The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.

ISBN:

9780814291078 (cd-rom)
0814291074 (cd-rom)
9780814210307 (alk. paper)
0814210309 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)68623983

LCCN:

2006014116

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)