Umfang:
VIII, 251 S.
ISBN:
9780814291078
,
0814210309
,
9780814210307
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrativeThe 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.
,
Part I: American dialogues : 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 -- Part II: European and African cultural visions : 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 -- Part III: Eastern and African American cross-cultural visions : 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
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
Schlagwort(e):
USA
;
Literatur
;
Schwarze
;
Moderne
;
Geschichte 1930-2000
;
Bibliografie
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006014116.html
Mehr zum Autor:
Hakutani, Yoshinobu 1935-
