Cross-cultural visions in African American modernism : from spatial narrative to jazz haiku
Yoshinobu Hakutani (Author)
"Yoshinobu Hakutani traces the development of African American modernism, which initially gathered momentum with Richard Wright's literary manifesto "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in 1937. Hakutani dissects and discusses the cross-cultural influences on the then-burgeoning discipline in three stages: American dialogues, European and African cultural visions, and Asian and African American cross-cultural visions."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 251 pages ; 24 cm
9780814210307, 9780814210307, 9780814291078, 0814210309, 0814291074
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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