East-West Literary Imagination

Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists explored Eastern philosophies and arts. Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demonstrates the East-West exchange through discussions of the interactions by modernists such as Yone Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Camus, and Kerouac.Finally, he argues that African American literature, represented by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and James Emanuel, is postmodern. Their works exhibit their concerted efforts to abolish marginality and extend referentiality, exemplifying the postmodern East-West crossroads of cultures. A fuller understanding of their work is gained by situating them within this cultural conversation. The writings of Wright, for example, take on their full significance only when they are read, not as part of a national literature, but as an index to an evolving literature of cultural exchanges.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-01-01
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagUniversity of Missouri Press
ISBN9780826221827

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AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: TranscendentalistsChapter 1 Henry David Thoreau and Confucian EthicsChapter 2 The Poetics of Subjectivity: Emerson, Zen, and LacanChapter 3 Emerson, Whitman, and Zen AestheticsPart II: ModernistsChapter 4 W. B. Yeats’s Poetics in the Noh PlayChapter 5 Yone Noguchi, Ezra Pound, and ImagismChapter 6 Albert Camus’s The Stranger and Richard Wright’s The OutsiderChapter 7 Richard Wright’s Haiku and Modernist PoeticsChapter 8 Jack Kerouac’s Haiku, Beat Poetics, and On theRoadPart III: African American WritersChapter 9 The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible ManChapter 10 Pagan Spain: Richard Wright’s Discourse on Religion, Politics, and CultureChapter 11 Private Voice and Buddhist Enlightenment in Alice Walker’s The Color PurpleChapter 12 Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, and African CultureChapter 13 African American Haiku: Richard Wright, Sonia Sanchez, and James EmanuelNotesWorks Cited

Professor Hakutani's East-West Literary Imagination represents a significant intervention in recent critical discussions placing American and African American literature in global, comparative, transnational, and transpacific contexts."" - Anita Patterson, Professor of English, Boston University, author of Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms""What we have not had in a useful and thorough form is a book like the one Hakutani has produced, a book carefully exploring the intellectual traffic between Asian and American authors on a larger scale across a significant period of history."" - Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Professor of American Literature, Pennsylvania State University; author of “Black Chant”: Languages of African American Postmodernism""This excellent study is not the first to deal with Eastern influences on Western literature and thinking, but it is a most timely offering—thorough in its research and clear in its presentation. Highly recommended."" - Choice""An inherently thoughtful, insightful, exceptionally well written, organized and presented work of original and seminal scholarship."" - Midwest Book Review