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

Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / Yoshinobu Hakutani. - 1 online resource (251 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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)
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.