Cross-cultural visions in African American modernism
Subtitle: from spatial narrative to jazz haiku
By: Yoshinobu Hakutani.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780814210307; 9780814291078
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- 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 and index.
Table of contents: value: The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative; value: The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man; value: No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture; value: If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity; value: Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity; value: Wright's The outsider and French existentialism; value: Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture; value: The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison; value: The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan; value: Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple; value: Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums; value: James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.