Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2006.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Modernism (Literature) Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) American literature > African American authors. African Americans > Intellectual life. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis. Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle. Influence litteraire, artistique, etc. > Histoire > 20e siecle. Litterature americaine > Influence etrangere. 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. United States. History. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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