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Record Nr.

UNINA9910159006003321

Autore

Hakutani Yoshinobu <1935->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

0-8142-7237-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 251 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/896073

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.