02594oam 22004814a 450 991015900600332120221208201432.00-8142-7237-1(CKB)3710000001018547(OCoLC)1229137976(MdBmJHUP)muse33847(EXLCZ)99371000000101854720060426d2006 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCross-Cultural Visions in African American ModernismFrom Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku /Yoshinobu HakutaniColumbus :Ohio State University Press,2006.©2006.1 online resource (ix, 251 p.)0-8142-1030-9 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.Modernism (Literature)United StatesAfrican AmericansIntellectual life20th centuryInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)History20th centuryAmerican literatureForeign influencesAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)African AmericansIntellectual lifeInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)HistoryAmerican literatureForeign influences.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.810.9/896073Hakutani Yoshinobu1935-1024664MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910159006003321Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism2435497UNINA