American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics traces the genesis and development of haiku in Japan as it transformed over the years and eventually made its way to the Western world. Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes the prominent Eastern philosophies expressed through haiku, such as Confucianism and Zen, and the aesthetic principles of yugen, sabi, and wabi. Hakutani discusses several reinventions of haiku, from Matsuo Basho’s transformation of the classic haiku, to Masaoka Shiki’s modernist perspectives expressing subjective thoughts and feelings, and eventually to Yone Noguchi’s introduction of haiku to the Western world through W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Hakutani argues that the adoption and transformation of haiku is one of the most popular East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchanges to have taken place in modern and postmodern times.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-29
Mått161 x 228 x 25 mm
Vikt531 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor236
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793634504

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Genesis and Development of Haiku in JapanChapter 2: Classic Haiku TraditionChapter 3: Modernist Haiku PoeticsChapter 4: Ezra Pound, Imagism, and HaikuChapter 5: Richard Wright’s Haiku and Modernist PoeticsChapter 6: Wright’s Haiku, Zen, and the African “Primal Outlook upon Life”Chapter 7: Jack Kerouac’s Haiku and Classic Haiku PoeticsChapter 8: Kerouac’s Haiku and Beat PoeticsChapter 9: Kerouac’s Haiku and The Dharma BumsChapter 10: Sonia Sanchez’s Haiku and Blues PoeticsChapter 11: James Emanuel’s Jazz HaikuBibliographyAbout the Author

This comprehensive study sheds new light on the development of modernism, especially in Japanese, American, and African American haiku poetry. Hakutani’s discussion of Yone Noguchi’s influence on Ezra Pound significantly revises our understanding of how Imagism emerged, and he persuasively demonstrates Richard Wright’s engagement with classic haiku poets as well as modernists such as Masaoka Shiki and T. S. Eliot. Hakutani’s deep knowledge of Buddhist and Confucian philosophies, and of the aesthetics of haiku, the blues, and jazz, makes him an indispensable guide to the cross-cultural poetic achievements of W. B. Yeats, Jack Kerouac, Sonia Sanchez, James Emanuel, and others.