Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism
Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-
Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / Yoshinobu Hakutani. - 1 online resource (ix, 251 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.
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.
Open Access
9780814272374 0814272371
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--20th century.
American literature--Foreign influences.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / H223 2006
810.9/896073
Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / Yoshinobu Hakutani. - 1 online resource (ix, 251 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.
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.
Open Access
9780814272374 0814272371
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--20th century.
American literature--Foreign influences.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / H223 2006
810.9/896073