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.
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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.